Pride is alive again   For two seconds   American flags are found   In the wreckage   Hood ornaments made up   Of stripes and stars   Cans of red, white and blue   Paint for your cars      Praying to God for the    First time in years   Jesus is your savior   To alleviate your fears   But the smoke has cleared   And the flags have come down   So what happened now?   Are you not still proud?      An American for that time and place   Watching TV with a horrified face   Salute the flag for a moment or two   But so quickly, you forget   You’re just a hypocrite, like most of the others   For a couple of months, we treated all like our brothers   But prejudice has strolled back in   And instead of the enemies, it’s ourselves we’re attacking      9-1-1, no help to dial   Pit of our stomach, seems so vile   Proud of our country, turn the dial   On every channel for a while   CNN, Bin Laden   Over and over again   Airport security   Increased and race profiling      Accepted, not accepting   To judge based on what one’s wearing   But understood, it’s for good   Might have bomb under that hood   Person win award, God bless America   Instant applause from the hypocritical   Who only months before, you could see   At demonstrations, flag-burning      An American for that time and place   Watching TV with a horrified face   Salute the flag for a moment or two   But so quickly, you forget   You’re just a hypocrite, like most of the others   For a couple of months, we treated all like our brothers   But prejudice has strolled back in   And instead of the enemies, it’s ourselves we’re attacking      I’ll admit, from the beginning   I wasn’t much of an American   But to see all these people rush out   And act like they love this country, so suddenly   Those flags hanging, they’ve all come down   The ones that were before, yeah, well, they’re still around   As much as the next guy, I hope those bastards    That caused all that pain on the day    Suffer for what they’ve done   Even more than the victims and their families    It’s a day that will live in infamy    But people, just be true to your beliefs   It’s demeaning to pretend to love America when it’s popular to do so   And once its over, to go back to your indifferent ways      An American for that time and place   Watching TV with a horrified face   Salute the flag for a moment or two   But so quickly, you forget   You’re just a hypocrite, like most of the others   For a couple of months, we treated all like our brothers   But prejudice has strolled back in   And instead of the enemies, it’s ourselves we’re attacking