US News — August 03, 2026

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[Verse 1]
Kay Granger left us, eighty-three years old
First Republican woman from Texas, that's a story worth being told
She led the House Appropriations gavel, first of her kind to hold that seat
From Fort Worth to the Capitol floor, a record bittersweet
Депутатка, перша така — history carved in stone
A trailblazer who rewrote the map, then walked that road alone

[Chorus]
Серпень третій, новини живі
The bridges, the ballots, the ones who've died
Цей світ не спить, the headlines climb
August third keeps moving through time

[Verse 2]
Six-point-four billion dollars span the Detroit River wide
The Gordie Howe Bridge connecting nations, politics along for the ride
The House Government Operations Committee may probe it come the fall
When billions cross a border, somebody's gotta make the call
Мости і гроші — follow every dime
Six billion questions and the clock still counting time

[Chorus]
Серпень третій, новини живі
The bridges, the ballots, the ones who've died
Цей світ не спить, the headlines climb
August third keeps moving through time

[Bridge]
A democratic socialist dreaming of the White House door
Activists sketching blueprints nobody's sketched before
Trump's hosting his Cabinet up at Camp David's grounds
And a Republican senator says his former kin steps down
The pro-Israel lobby question echoes back to Truman's desk
History keeps returning to the same unfinished tests

[Verse 3]
So the news keeps spinning, chillwave underneath the weight
Every headline is a window into choices made too late
Or maybe made exactly when they had to hit the air
The date gets stamped in memory — you just have to know it's there

[Chorus]
Серпень третій, новини живі
The bridges, the ballots, the ones who've died
Цей світ не спить, the headlines climb
August third keeps moving through time

[Verse 4]
The ballot boxes filling up with hope and with despair
Candidates are sharpening their words to cut the air
Someone's rising, someone's falling, polls shift overnight
The machinery of democracy grinding toward the light
Голоси звучать — every single one will land
The future's being written by an ordinary hand
And when the votes are counted and the speeches fade to grey
August third will mark the moment somebody had their say

[Chorus]
Серпень третій, новини живі
The bridges, the ballots, the ones who've died
Цей світ не спить, the headlines climb
August third keeps moving through time

[Outro]
Клавіші грають, the story won't freeze
August third, twenty-twenty-six — file that away with ease

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