The American Dream (feat. B Tay & AK)

We are gathered here today to honor the life of a lovely father, husband, and son A soldier who put the lives of others before his own To the blindly benighted He was just another boy who was brave That's all we've got, covered in stone Unknown as the Tombstones engraved Pushed aside and forgotten Achievements buried and rotten Never got to live for the dream he stood for and fought in It's making me sick to just to think about He gave his life just for us Sounds familiar Minus the book, the religion, and cross Doesn't it? With no fuss He didn't ask for it He wanted to enlist He didn't get drafted, he chose this He left his mother a kiss He let his wife have his genes in our kids He left it all, with one purpose in hand To fight for what he believed in Loyalty, duty, respect, and selfless service Honor, integrity and personal courage That's"Army Strong" That's why I've gone and written this song It's for the widowed, his wife to move on And to his mother, for having to be the one to bury his son Now sing along The dream was saved today You didn't die in vain I know it's your time to go But don't you fly away Come back to me You left me and God only knows why he took you to this Heaven Before I said goodbye My best friend, how could I be so blind To the freedoms that you gave When you gave your life for me For you For everyone who knew the price of freedom's death And the price of dreams are cruel You saved us from this life that we live Never forgetting what it means to sacrifice Opening our eyes to understand You took our fears with every bullet But you had a life to live at home And you knew it, so why'd you do it? You were her rock, her soul, the light that shined through it But they blew it And darkness remains But it's insane From the ashes The dream will rise again Free from the hate, it's not too late to change our fate From the wickedness, you set us straight Open the gates And the sacrifices that you make Recalling the memory Will always be the greatest gift ever given to me The chance to see you fly away to break me free So rest in peace One day she'll grow up to see her daddy's watching The dream was saved today You didn't die in vain I know it's your time to go But don't you fly away Come back to me There are men and women fighting for that shit that we're handed But still, we take it for granted It's ingrained in our head And we don't even stop to think about the dangers ahead of us Those same soldiers that fled Thought about it, then decided just to give it up We live our lives every day so we could live it up Imagine life without those guys The US of A would never have existed at all The whole nation would fall Into a state of imprisonment Think about how all those wars, and all this shit would be different We'd be another Nazi experiment The fear of it is lost In the mind We're so used to the soldiers fighting We don't give them the right amount of time that they put into it We only notice the prevalent September 11th was sad, yeah But it's just another day to those relevant So be proud of it We're all citizens Just remember we are motherfucking Americans