Red Ink and Rulers

Verse 1

Old men drew the lines

On a map they never walked

Blood red ink on paper

While the soldiers talked

Your daddy's flag was waving

When they sent him to the shore

He fought for their accounting

Left the family behind his door

Pre-Chorus

Now they hand you a symbol

Say it's sacred hold it high

Tell me whose blood bought the border

Tell me which folks had to die

Chorus

Don't tell me love your country

When the country never loved you back

Some rich man's drawing borders

While the poor man pays the tax

Do you share your dinner

With the banker in his tower

Or the stranger in the next town

Every hour after hour

Verse 2

Nine-figure check

Buys a seat at the table

You get a red white and blue

Got nothing but a fable

He's a resource to them

Just a number in a book

Till you ask for what you're owed

Till you ask what they took

Pre-Chorus

Point the finger outward

While they pick your pockets clean

Same old circus every cycle

Same old dirty machine

Chorus

Don't tell me love your country

When the country never loved you back

Some rich man's drawing borders

While the poor man pays the tax

Do you share your dinner

With the banker in his tower

Or the stranger in the next town

Every hour after hour

Bridge

A worker in Ohio

A worker in Japan

Same calloused hands

Same hungry plan

They taught you enemies

But look across the sea

Same rent to pay

Same chain on me

Chorus

Don't tell me love your country

When the country never loved you back

Some rich man's drawing borders

While the poor man pays the tax

Do you share your dinner

With the banker in his tower

Or the stranger in the next town

Every hour after hour

Outro

Every hour

Every hour

After hour