 We are the American flag don't you get that she remembers the birth of our freedom When we chose the other road the darker of the two in search for new horizons and what freedom meant to us She was there We looked up and saw her wave and followed On distant battlefields. Oh have she wept upon our wounded soul As we glanced up at this tattered cloth still clinging to the pole or wrapped around a fallen Comrade to usher them back home She was there She waved and we followed and on homeland soil when rights were crushed to muffle out our call We persevered to make it clear our voices were heard by all She was there too We looked up and saw her wave and we followed and now You wish to burn her when you only have to call But once again, she'll climb that mess and wave upon that pole For the absence of just one of us makes neither of us whole And if you should choose to burn her you only burn your soul