There was a time when American hands
Built the spine of the strongest of lands
The forge was hot and the middle class rose
On the labor of men that the whole world knows
Then someone decided the profit was thin
And signed away everything we had ever been

Post-war engines roaring down the line
Automotive steel and aerospace design
Labor unions building up the working man’s floor
Vocational training opening every door
Government behind the domestic machine
The cleanest strongest manufacturing the world had seen
American-made was the global gold standard set
A prosperity the globalists will never forget

The factory towns were alive with the sound
Of sovereign production on American ground
The middle class thriving on the dignity of skill
Before the boardrooms gathered on Jekyll Island’s hill

ENGINEERED DECLINE — they sold the forge away
ENGINEERED DECLINE — signed the jobs to a foreign grave
NAFTA and the WTO — the multinational deal
Trading every factory for a Wall Street windfall steal
ENGINEERED DECLINE — the middle class betrayed
ENGINEERED DECLINE — on the altar of the trade
They called it economic progress — they called it the new age
While they burned the American worker off the globalist stage

Cheap foreign labor was the corporate dream
Offshore the production — inflate the profit stream
Tax breaks for the traitors who abandoned the soil
Government incentives for the offshoring spoil
The World Economic Forum penned the post-industrial plan
The IMF and World Bank executing to a man
Think tanks framing treason as the enlightened view
While the Rust Belt hollow echoed with the sound of what they knew

The factory towns went silent one by one
Corporate America loading up and on the run
The antitrust protections ground to corporate dust
And the media called it progress while the infrastructure rusts

ENGINEERED DECLINE — they sold the forge away
ENGINEERED DECLINE — signed the jobs to a foreign grave
NAFTA and the WTO — the multinational deal
Trading every factory for a Wall Street windfall steal
ENGINEERED DECLINE — the middle class betrayed
ENGINEERED DECLINE — on the altar of the trade
They called it economic progress — they called it the new age
While they burned the American worker off the globalist stage

The opioid epidemic.
The collapsed local economy.
The welfare dependency.
The sons of steelworkers with nowhere to go.
The daughters of machinists with no middle class to inherit.
This was not market forces.
This was policy.
Written in boardrooms.
Signed by bought politicians.
Executed on purpose.
Against you.

But the sovereign nation has a memory long
And the workers who were silenced kept carrying the song
Reshoring is the answer — bring the production home
Strategic tariffs breaking up the globalist throne
Decentralize the supply chain — rebuild the skilled hand
Vocational apprenticeships reclaiming the land
Advanced manufacturing rising from the Rust Belt floor
American ingenuity kicking down the door

NO MORE DECLINE — we’re rebuilding the forge
NO MORE DECLINE — reclaiming every shore
Tear up the agreements that surrendered our might
American manufacturing returning to the fight
NO MORE DECLINE — the middle class reborn
NO MORE DECLINE — every globalist sworn
To answer for the decades of the engineered fall
The sovereign worker rising — and we’re reclaiming it all

Build it with your hands
Pass it to your sons
The forge is not forgotten
The sovereign work
Is never done
American. Skilled. Unbroken.
Rising.