Stomp on the flag and light it up
Yeah, ya think you're tough.
Well, try that in a small town.
See how far ya make it down the road.
Around here, we take care of our own.
You cross that line, it won't take long.
For you to find out, I recommend you don't.
Try that in a small town.
Got a gun that my granddad gave me
Flag burning is 1st Amendment protected free speech and he is threatening gun violence which is an actual crime.
It's very telling that they thought this song was in defense of and promoting small towns. It's the exact opposite.
For one, I doubt many small towns are having liberal protests. Largely, I imagine, because two, they're proudly declaring they're close minded and violent. This song is just "patriotic" violence porn over imagining someone protesting for equal civil rights. Frankly it just reminds me, a non-white person, to stay the hell away from small towns.
Is it too cruel to suggest that we let small towns fend for themselves completely if they're so proud of it?
You got it wrong.
The implied threat to use a firearm comes after that, in regards to trying to take the firearm in question, not in regards to the section quoted.
If you're going to point out hypocrisy, point to the accurate hypocrisy :)
See how far you make it down the road because he has a gun... which he will use as a pointing device to politely direct you elsewhere.
I mean this song is dumb as fuck but the quote is misleading.
That last line is the start of a second verses focusing on how you can't take his granpappy's gun - it's not part of a continued threat from the first verse
OP definitely knew this, because the punctuation doesn't even line up as if it were the end of the verse. This is deliberately misleading, which is weird, because the song is obviously already ridden with shit lines.
The entire thing is a threat of violence, see all the un-bolded parts. Like literally what is different about a small town in this song which forces people to stop burning flags, except that they will violently prevent you from exercising your first amendment rights?
Immediately mentioning a gun is specifying gun violence but threatening violence in reaction to free speech in general is illegal and an immoral call for vigilante justice.
Yes the implied violence and the introduction of grandpas gun are purely coincidental! How misleading of OP!
It is misleading. The second verse literally has its own implied threat.
Got a gun that my granddad gave me
They say one day they're gonna round up
Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck
This is just how songs, paragraphs, and language in general work.
Flag burning is protected and threatening gun violence is a crime. What the gun violence is a reaction to is irrelevant.
The fact that this is down voted... hey guys maybe listen to the actual song so you can hear how this is very obviously an entire new verse, and the gun is not related to the flag burning? Why do we care more about bashing the song than being actually correct?
Newsflash: unironically listening to modern country like Jason Aldean or any other arena country act, makes you an idiot. It's a bad song, with bad lyrics, with bad music, sung by a millionaire larping as working class. Everything about Country is a lie.
That was a scarecrow.
🎶I write songs for the people who do🎶 🎶Jobs in the towns that I’d never move to🎶
Modern Pop country can go to hell. Want to listen to country, go look up Bluegrass or Folk Punk.
Basically proving everything people are saying about the awful things that song stands for right.
Someone with better video editing skills than myself (none whatsoever) should remake this video but exclusively use footage from the January 6th insurrection.
You mean people from small towns have an enfeebled ability to tolerate rhetoric that isn’t their own? I’m shocked.
He didn’t even write the song.
So? He chose to record it. Pretty sure he understands English at at least a rudimentary level, and the choice of setting for the video was NOT a coincidence. He deserves all the derision he’s getting.
I agree, I’m just a bit baffled as to why he would choose to do this song. I mean, it would be bad enough if he composed it, but to hear it and think “yes, I want to say that” is just beyond understanding for me. It’s almost like setting a trump speech to music. So. Weird.
Recent polling indicates that something like 20% of the country still think the election was stolen, so it’s not that surprising. All that Aldean did was to confirm to the world beyond a shadow of doubt who exactly he is as a person.
Almost none of them do. They’re just mouthpieces for the Nashville pop trash machine.
At this point I only know I'm right when I get death threats. We should wear em as a badge of honor at this point.
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