(Music: Ackerson/Andersen/Teran – Lyrics: Ackerson)
You think you know me, you think you get it
You stopped listening as soon as I said it, now
You feel entitled, to chase the carrot
You got your freedom and don’t want to share it, now
But maybe if you gave a little piece of your free
You could learn what you already thought you knew about me
If I sing with drawl, am I more American?
Will you care at all when you hear my despair again?
Till you know we fall together on the same imaginary side
If I sing with drawl, am I more believable?
Clever with the gall to peg you deceivable?
Or just a friend who calls to tell you you’ve been taken for a ride
This is no party, and there is no line
You think you know me, you think you get it
You tell the story, but you’ve never read it, now
You say you’re better, at critical thinkin’
I’d love a swallow of what you’ve been drinkin’, now
And maybe if we shared another taste or two
I could learn what I already thought I knew about you
If I sing with drawl, will you change the station
Back to NPR, missin’ Talk of the Nation?
You were raised on a different brand of speculation, but your studies are no less blind
If I sing with drawl, am I uneducated?
Do you think of me as dull, dumb, slow or sedated?
Now, living in a place where everyone is hated, I hope we’ve come to find
This is no party and there is no line
This is no party and there is no line
This is no party, and there is no line
This is no party and there is no line
This is no party and there is no line
I love my family, my neighbors, my life (This is no party and there is no line – 4X BG vox)
I find no strength when divided
I will not bow to the sellers of strife
Or fall to the plans they’ve decided
Why can’t we all party, like there are no lines?
Can’t we all party?