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O, say can you see

Through this haze of deceit

The roaring crowd

Leaps to their feet

The illusion complete

Walk in your sleep

Through nightmares unseen

Lost in American dreams

O'er the ramparts we watched

As what we fought for was lost

When victory means the same as defeat

It comes at too high a cost

For words, our deaths come cheaply bought

But in flesh and blood they are wrought

At the twilight's last gleaming

Shadows fall over the sleeping

Who lie content in believing their dreaming

Until they wake up screaming

At the twilight's last gleaming

Shadows fall over the sleeping

Who lie content in believing their dreaming

Until they wake up screaming

At the twilight's last gleaming

O, say can you see

That you live on your knees

Blindly led, through life and to death

For a nominal fee

I'll live my life like a wolf among sheep

But I will die on my feet