When You Call It Your Country

When you call it your country you have got it all wrong Since your country owns you and to it you belong People come to and from life go but the country remain And that your country owns you do i need to explain You may wave the flag of your country for to honor the brave Who went to war for it and are now in their grave But why should anyone die for what they in reality do not own You can only love your country by living for it since the dead cannot love a fact that is known When you call it your country you believe your own lie For mortals cannot own a country since mortals do die And you do not love your country by waving your national flag For flags are human creations and a patriotic brag How can you own something that in reality owns you I only do say what is obviously true.