From the recording America
Composed by Simon Rigoni
Performed by 2 Inch Tape;
Simon Rigoni: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Nylon String Guitar, Taurus Pedals, Field Recordings
Fiona Broussard: Grand Piano, Backing Vocals
Mark Petrilli: Bass, Backing Vocals
Julia Bebenek: Drums, Backing Vocals
Kurt Mottershead: Backing Vocals
Lyrics
Keep the masses happy, illusion of a dream
Hapless lower middle class, sweep the streets and keep them clean
Aspiring to serve others, negotiated slavery
Born into your classes, serving subordinately
Health and Education, out of reach for ordinary
You want to be the president, oh don’t believe the story
Unless you are an actor, and B grade or a billionaire, and
Corruption is something, for which you have a flare
No free will in America
There’s no free will in America
Can’t see your free will in America
Where’s your free will in America
Hungry and unsheltered, another night sleeping rough
Once you served your country, now you beg for all you’ve got
Free entrance to museums, but first you should have a wash
Immortalised masterpieces, what more could you want
Sexual exploitation, in a family restaurant
Waitress serves half naked, boy ten years, looks on
I try to lift my gaze but I’m, more man than I want
She came for opportunity, is this all she got
No free will in America
There’s no free will in America
Can’t see your free will in America
You’ve lost your will in America
So much for your liberty
I thought you were, the land of the free
I hear a beggars cry he’s hungry, while in a restaurant I do feed
Guilt finally gets to me, must offer food to relieve
Fried chicken wings and fries for you, a handshake I offer too
Your trust flees as I near, what could have caused this fear
Existing out in Binghamton, on disability
I’ll hold my pity, a useless currency
Down and out city, no postcards to be found
Trouble should be brewing, your voices they seem drowned
No free will in America
There’s no free will in America
No free will in America
Can’t see the free will in America
Where’s your free will in America
Oh there’s no free will in America
Can’t see the free will in America
You’ve lost your free will in America
No free will in America (repeat and adlib)
America (repeat and adlib)
No free will in America
There’s no free will in America
Can’t see the free will in America
You’ve lost your free will in America