Gutted Foundations

[Verse 1] Steel-toed boots on dusty ground, that whistle blew, no work around They shipped the promise overseas, left rust and broken memories Old boy kneels on busted knees, prays "Lord, just one more shift, please?" Reopen that dark, mountain mine, let me earn this bread of mine [Chorus] That's why this country's on its a*s Went and gutted the middle class You see the graffiti, broken glass? Went and gutted the middle class [Verse 2] Diploma frames on calloused hands, "Would you like fries?" across the land Paying down loans that never end, will this American Dream just bend? Or break apart like shattered glass, trapped inside that screaming past? A picket fence, a home, some peace, just money left when rent's released [Chorus] That's why this country's on its a*s Went and gutted the middle class You see the graffiti, broken glass? Went and gutted the middle class [Refrain] Cast down! Cast down into the pits profound! The gates are shut, the seal is set on hallowed ground! [Verse 3] Lehman boys in towers high, French wine beneath a foreign sky German wheels and Cuban smoke, while working families barely cope We don't ask much, it ain't a sin: a roof, a truck, a place within A schoolyard safe, a chance to stand, on our own piece of promised land [Bridge] Maybe it's time we turned around, when what we needed *here* was found When sweat and steel built more than rust, in honest labor, earned trust Pour that sweat into the earth, remember what this land was worth Before the vials poured out the cost, before the dream got tempest-tossed [Chorus] That's why this country's on its a*s Went and gutted the middle class You see the graffiti, broken glass? Went and gutted the middle class [Refrain] Cast down! Cast down into the pits profound! The gates are shut, the seal is set on hallowed ground! A thousand years! The nations rest, deceived no more! While saints arise to reign upon a peaceful shore! [Outro] The cities crumble, kingdoms fall... Babylon remembers... after all Gutted... foundations... (Gutted the middle class...) And I saw the d**d, small and great, stand before God... Judged out of those things written in the books... According to their works... (Gutted... gutted...) Hallowed ground...