A Decade Old Protest Song Lyrics

Everything you see can be quantified

So there's nothing that you'll never see again

Time will disprove everything you know

So there's nothing worth holding on to

At eleven years old I knew the president was strong

And the strong thing is the right thing to do

We all recall the good ol' days with fondness

As kids make sense of geopolitics

On a clunky television in the basement

I saw the right thing fall from the sky

Broadcast in nightvision and in low resolution

All you said was "there they go"

At eleven years old I was a patriot

Cuz a patriot's the right thing to be

We all recall the good ol' days with fondness

As kids make sense of geopolitics

Basement TV says "mission accomplished"

"Everyone will all come home"

"War is over, war is done, we're victorious"

"It'll never, ever happen again"

But it happened again

At eleven years old I knew the president was strong

But I'm not sure that the strong thing was right

At eleven years old I knew I was a patriot

But I'm not sure that being a patriot is right

At eleven years old I knew the Patriot Act was right

And now the government knows that I don't

At eleven years old I knew America was right

But now I know that's false most of the time

How can we recall the good ol' days with fondness

We were just kids making sense of geopolitics