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The song (and its title) refer to the historic 1630 sermon
A Model of Christian Charity (City on a Hill) by Puritan leader John Winthrop.
Ronald Reagan famously made reference to Winthrop’s speech in his own speech at the 1984 Republican National Convention, and “shining city on a hill” is probably...
All the founding fathers sowed their seeds
Into servant girls
All the godless heathens had to leave
To make a newer world
So we could live together in America
Justice is blind, man
So is love
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
All the stolen melodies they played
In the hit parade
All the power spirituals, they fade
In the salad days
So we could sing together in America
The price of an anthem paid in blood
Bodies stacked like hundred dollar bills
To build that shining city on the hill
There’s no guilt, regret, or shame
It just had to be this way
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
If you scheme and hustle, don’t get caught
Gotta risk it all
Or hang on every number they read off
For the Powerball
We’ll all get rich together in America
Money’s indifferent
So is love
Trash bags full of hundred dollar bills
We left that broke down city on the hill
Had to relocate the past
Because we’re never going back
City on the Hill was written by Conor Oberst.
City on the Hill was produced by Desaparecidos & Mike Mogis.
Desaparecidos released City on the Hill on Tue Jun 23 2015.