David Byrne - Empire lyrics

In national elections

In songs raised on high

With stirring emotions

As tears fill your eyes

In democratic fever

For national defense

I am a mountain [3x]

Like birds upon a fence [2x]

Young artists and writers

Please heed the call

What's good for business

Is good for us all

And as it is in Nature

So it is in life

The weak among us with perish [3x]

The strong alone will survive [2x]

Voices like thunder

Decisions like steel

The past and the future

They belong to us all

From every mountain

The water and the air

The world that we've created [3x]

By working hand in hand [2x]