9. “Home,” by Dierks Bentley; 2011
Inspired by the 2011 shooting in Arizona that killed six and critically injured U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords, the song was Bentley and the other two writers' attempt to make sense of the tragedy.
Patriotic Lyric: “Land, blessed mother land, the place where I was born. Scars, she’s got her scars, Sometimes it starts to worry me. Cause lose, I don’t want to lose, sight of who we are.”