Sounds to me like an anti war song. Bush administration, iraq etc. The outcome is no longer an american dream. "the few, the proud, no longer singing their song." even people that were pro war are now against it, remembers me of the mother from that docu fahrenheit 9/11. All the time so proud of her son, with a flag in her frontyard. Until he died overseas and from there on she was against the war. "we are trying to breath underwater" try to do the impossible. Probably americas mission as a self-proclaimed world police to bring peace and democracy to the whole world. "one nation under god, it's us against the world" bush justified his policy in the name of god, fight against the evil in the world. Axis of evil. "cut the tounge from society..." censorship. Pretend nothing happened to americans in the middle east and hide the children from what did happen. Overall people are still living a normal life ("counting our 1, 2, 3's") just as if there was no war.