Wasted the Day (feat. Changes)

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time With the blood of patriots and tyrants It is its natural manure So thirsty for many years But the calls fell on deaf ears Thus always - to water the tree But you thought you'd keep it all for free Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle Squandered away What they left you to hold and to guard An oath to betray Squandered away The ruins all ashen and charred Just wasted the day Whenever the people are well informed They can be trusted with their own government That whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice They may be relied on to set them to rights Never thought it would fall Never thought you'd lose it all Didn't heed the gun - advise Didn't want to pay the price If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization It expects what never was and never will be Squandered away What they left you to hold and to guard An oath to betray Squandered away The ruins all ashen and charred Just wasted the day There is no act, however virtuous For which ingenuity may not find some bad motive Dissolution - but just for you And all your power they took that too No rights to claim - just bend the knee You broke the axiom of liberty To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow And years of desolation pass over Yet the object is worth rivers of blood, and years of desolation Squandered away What they left you to hold and to guard An oath to betray Squandered away The ruins all ashen and charred Just wasted the day What's left to say But a curse to the end of the earth To see their decay What's left to say If there are any left of some worth Somehow make them pay I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past