"America" lyrics

There's an unrequited dream I'm praying for
She flies, weathered, wise and frayed
May she stand by the cause she's been waving for
The red, the white, the blue, the free and brave

America, oh my sweet America
May you come to be all that you aim to be
America, oh my sweet America
May you come to be all that you claim to be

Upon the back of those shackled to stolen shores
A nation under God and unrepaid
Under the stripes and the stars they're still bleeding for
May we do more than only say their names

America, oh my sweet America
May you come to be all that you claim to be
America, oh my sweet America
May you come to be all that you aim to be

Oh, say can you see a land where wombs are not policed
Where justice, liberty and peace remain the cardinal decree
And where our kids don't have to flee from someone's emptied magazine
Now, tell me 'bout your freedom

Is it man or machine we are crying for?
Institutions I can't entertain
Thoughts and prayers for the cause they've been dying for
Their memories, I will not betray

America, oh my sweet America
May you come to be all that you aim to be
America, oh my sweet America
May you come to be all that you claim to be, oh

America, ooh
May you come to be
America, ooh
May you come to be all that you aim to be, oh-ahh

America, ooh
May you come to be all that you aim to be
America, ooh
By the dawn's early light
America, ooh
O'er the land of the free