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\n\tIf Zach Bryan<\/a> was hoping to have a quiet autumn, especially after his ongoing feud with country act Gavin Adcock<\/a>, he\u2019s out of luck. Bryan has once again found himself in the middle of the culture wars \u2014 and this time with an old-fashioned protest song that\u2019s irked MAGA fans and even the federal Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n \n\tOver the weekend, Bryan released a portion of that new tune, called \u201cBad News,\u201d on his social media feeds. The minute-long excerpt \u2014 written solely by Bryan, a source close to the artist confirms to Rolling Stone<\/em> \u2014 opens with bristly guitar strums before Bryan starts singing in what appears to be the voice of someone detained by ICE<\/a>: \u201cI heard the cops came, cocky motherfuckers, ain\u2019t they?\u201d goes part of one verse, followed by a more specific commentary: \u201cAnd ICE<\/a> is gonna come bust down your door\/Try to build a house no one builds no more\/But I got a telephone\/Kids are all scared and all alone.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn the last part of the snippet, Bryan sings, \u201cThe bars stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling, the middle fingers rising\/And it won\u2019t stop showing\/Got some bad news\/The fading of the red, white, and blue.\u201d With that, the song, which had been building to a crescendo, fades, leaving both the listener and the narrator in uneasy limbo.<\/p>\n