Burning Flags

they're burning flags again.... sit down stand up protesting, cracking heads like eggs, yolk running down on hallowed ground.... they're burning flags again... soldier boys coming home to no work, living in cars, no help, without a country... they're burning flags again... your sister died giving birth. your brother-in-law cant get work, making meth in the tub... crying at night 'neath a picture of Jesus hanging on the cross.... they're burning flags again... small town football heroes in prison cells learning to live outside the law.... they're burning flags again.... and the words of Jefferson fall in the empty rooms where justice and equality lived.... they're burning flags again!