do you know the cost of future misery?
    have you lost your sense of sustainability?
    we are just a step away
    from realizing what we strive to be
    but we've got to break out
    from this insulated blind and lame senility
    wake up the new america
    wo-oh!
    transcend the mass hysteria
    wo-oh!
    change is the thing you're wary of
    wo-oh!
    we need a new america
    wo-oh!
    laurels, human triumph,
    bestowments from the past
    victories don't mean a thing
    if they don't last
    we are just marching toward extinction
    with blinders on our eyes
    jeopardizing everything
    we've learned and come to realize
    you call that wise?
    open your eyes america
    wo-oh!
    see through the lies they tell to us
    wo-oh!
    confront the fears that worry us
    wo-oh!
    we need a new america
    wo-oh!
    we don't have to be afraid to re-invent
    we've got to start to build,
    progress, and implement
    for when we take our fill,
    and never pay the price
    we only build ourselves a fleeting,
    false paradise
    you can live in staunch denial
    and mark me as your enemy
    but I'm just a voice among the throng
    who want a brighter destiny
    they say with me
    we are the new america
    wo-oh!
    this is the new america?
    wo-oh