America the Ugly

O ugly are its towers kissing the skies,
For crimson waves of pain,
For red mountain oligarchies
Above the barren plain!
Amerika! Amerika!
God lift his grace from thee
And judge thy evil with wormwood
From sea to darkened sea!

O ugly for Leviathan's feet
Whose serpent's guile enslaves the aimless
A thoroughfare of tyranny beat
Across the ghetto wilderness!
Amerika! Amerika!
God pour salt in every orifice,
Yank its soul for it has no self-control,
Its tyranny in lawlessness!

O ugly for despots at whom they marvel
In kindling aimless worship and hopeless strife.
Who rather than look to Providence for Leviathan they grovel
And love death more than mercy!
Amerika! Amerika!
May God thy mammon make worthless
Till all be rubbish
And every gain made vain!

O ugly for nationalist dream
That sees nothing beyond the usury
Thine Babel cities steam
Spreading worldwide human misery!
Amerika! Amerika!
God lift his grace from thee
And judge thy evil with wormwood
From sea to darkened sea!

O ugly for its war machines,
For crimson waves of pain,
For imperial mountain travesties
Above the forsaken plain!
Amerika! Amerika!
God lift his grace from thee
As its souls wax reprobate and full o' hate
And may its jungle noise drown in the sea!

O ugly for Leviathan's feet
Whose serpent's guile enslaves the aimless
A thoroughfare of tyranny beat
Across the ghetto wilderness!
Amerika! Amerika!
God lift his grace from thee
Till fires be wrought through wilds of thought
By mundane foot and knee!

O ugly for for its gory-tale
In kindling aimless worship and hopeless strife.
When once and thrice,
To the common man's ignorant wail
Men hated liberty and even life
Amerika! Amerika!
God lift his grace from thee
Till selfish gain can no longer sustain
The vainglorious and greedy mundane!

O ugly for nationalist dream
That sees nothing beyond the usury
Thine Babel cities steam
Spreading worldwide human misery!
Amerika! Amerika!
God lift his grace from thee
And judge thoroughly this crud country
Awaitin' your justice with glee!