Eric Schuurman, 1985
New Amerika
New Amerika…
Your star will shine.
Wipe those tears away,
you will live to see a better day.
You will live to see another miracle.
You will live to see New Amerika.
Wipe those tears away.
Wipe those tears away,
Ellis Island was another day.
Ellis Island – undoing Babylon.
Ellis Island – vision of a promised land.
Wipe those tears away.
New Amerika,
New Amerika…
Your star will shine.
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breath free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
send these the homeless tempest-tosssed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Wipe those tears away,
the darkest hour leads to the light of day.
We’ll see things differently then.
We’ll recognize an enemy within.
Wipe those tears away.
New Amerika,
New Amerika…
Your star will shine.
No socialism,
No capitalism,
No religious extremism.
And no, no racism.
No geography,
No nationality,
No ideology,
Only humanity.
New Amerika,
New Amerika…
Your star will shine.
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