America the Battleful: Oh Beautiful for Endless Wars!

I recommend watching this version instead: America the Battleful.

Using my own lyrics and Udio.com for the music, I created this variation of America the Beautiful. Imagine that it's sung by a neoconservative or by, say, the CEO of Lockheed Martin. Also available on youtube here.

Note: The AI tool does not allow me to use the original melody in the performance. That might be because it doesn't want to enable copyright violation. I will work on using the original melody.

O beautiful for endless wars,
For searing waves of pain,
For vicious bombing travesties
Above the ravaged plains!
America, America
God shed his tears on thee.
And crown falsehood with orphanhood
From sea to blood-drenched sea!

Oh beautiful for endless wars
Whose profits are immense,
For bombs and guns yield ample funds,
At peoples' great expense.
America, America,
Your war machine marches on,
Exploiting fears for countless years,
With lives and truth undone.

Oh beautiful for wars provoked,
By coups and covert schemes.
For C.I.A.-armed militias
For cover-ups obscene.
America, America,
The war drums never cease.
And those who die can't question why,
While living folks are fleeced.

Oh beautiful for blinding lies,
That fuel the war machine,
With flags unfurled and hatred hurled
The truth is rarely seen.
America, America,
Your leaders fan the flames,
And in the din of hate and lies,
They play their deadly game.

Oh beautiful for endless lies,
Disguised as noble cause,
For glory sung by silver tongue
And arms merchants' applause.
America, America,
Your dreams were made malign.
The land of the free is now merely
An empire in decline.

Here is a different version of the song above, with a different melody and improved lyrics.

Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine

For example, Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying."

See other music: Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One.
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars,
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
Endless War Blues,
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24,
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI,
Machinery of Death (death metal song),
No More Stupid Wars!,
Lesser of Two Evils Blues,
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism. and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.

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