American Glory" - Bryan McPherson

"American Glory" is out now http://www.bryanmcpherson.com

Directed and edited by Bryan McPherson
Filmed by Joe Sheehan / Sheehan Works
Production Assistance by Pat Lokken

Drums: Pete Parada
Bass: Casey Daron
Hammond Electric Organ: Stevie Watts
Backup and Gang Vocals: James “Cheeseburger” Bryant, David Swanson, The Valley Choir
Guitar, Vocal, Harmonica: Bryan McPherson

Recorded in a variety of spaces, basements, and studios in Montana, Tennesee, New Hampshire, and England
Mixed by Wille Samuels at Nu-Tone in California
Mastered by Mike Cervantes at The Foxboro Mastering in Michigan.
Written and Produced by Bryan McPherson

Lyrics

Mary got high on percocet and pain
Mary got broke
Mary got paid
Mary took a shot of fentynol in her vein
Now she's living on a corner in downtown Hell A

She had glory
Lets make a new American story

Matty got out of DOT
Matty got lost
Matty got shipped to the desert and forgot
Keep your head down for a trip wire bomb
Matty lost his legs and now he's long gone

He had glory
Lets make a new American story

Latchkey kid with his finger on the gun
Loner in the neighborhood
He never got the love
Now he's shooting up a school
They're running down the hall
Now their bones are in the dirt
And their bloods on the wall

They had glory
Lets make a new American story

Lets go lets go lets go lets go lets go lets go lets go lets go lets go lets go lest go lets go lets go lets go

The last journalist reads words from a screen
Reading what their telling him to read
If they take away your freedom of speech
There'll be nobody left to hear you scream

And another politician is lying through her teeth
And another lost soul lies in a tent on the street
And another drug dealers gonna peddle a vaccine
For the dead and the dying American Dream

We had glory
Lets make a new American Story

Lets go

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