Can this be America
The home of the free
When for the first time I feel like a refugee?
Where we sought asylum
We were welcomed in
These days is received as a sin

Do you remember the fall of Saigon?
The city turned red by the Viet Cong
The choices they had were to flee or bleed
That's why my family had
No choice but to leave

This is the way of the Vietnamese
Where we became the new refugees

(Whoa, whoa)
By raising the fences, we're lowering the bar
(Whoa, whoa)
It seems like we're traveling back to Manzanar
(Whoa, whoa)
By persecuting people just trying to be free
(Whoa, whoa)
We're stopping them from their pursuit of liberty

Since when do passports
Without the right stamps
Send people back to concentration camps?
No sight of future, no guarantees
Yet they still risk it all to save their families


What kind of world do we live in where this okay?
Wars are baseless, it's one human race

(Whoa, whoa)
By raising the fences, we're lowering the bar
(Whoa, whoa)
It seems like we're traveling back to Manzanar
(Whoa, whoa)
By persecuting people just trying to be free
(Whoa, whoa)
We're stopping them from their pursuit of liberty

All of the people still watching their backs
Hiding in fear, covering their tracks
Could this be the start of the Fourth Reich?
This isn't what freedom looks like

By raising the fences, we're lowering the bar
It seems like we're traveling back to Manzanar
(Whoa, whoa)
By persecuting people just trying to be free
(Whoa, whoa)
We're stopping them from their pursuit of liberty

(Whoa, whoa)
By raising the fences, we're lowering the bar
(Whoa, whoa)
It seems like we're traveling back to Manzanar