[Verse 1] Oh, I fell in love, like they do in the magazines On a football field, it was a long daydream All my high school spent in faithful disbelief I know that he looks dumb but he's smart underneath They say I'm a bright kid and I have a future With the Puritan blessing of work to be done But to see him cradling that beer is all that I'm seeing [Verse 2] But then come college days, and now I'm driving home With my list of books to read and that self-important tone And my parents, I read them like the news I know where they went wrong and they're not friends I would choose And there's a sunset over the mountains I shout my scorn to the splendorous sky For how does this light compare to all the world's suffering? [Verse 3] But now it's a working day, I've lain my gloves to rest And now I'm hanging over the sink with a pregnancy test You can relax, babe, results are negative Oh, but how I thought of kids and who they'd be, about where we'd live And I saw them climbing up Breakneck Ridge Found the neighbors' woods for to make them their own And I'll see them dancing across the lawns of my homeland [Bridge] We found the town in 1641 For to farm and to pray and Metro North to run We took the fields, the marsh and the moon and the sun We got to work before the day was done Oh hey, hey And I'll see them dancing across the lawns of my homeland [Verse 4] I am an American From the fourth grade turkey pageant to the protest march I stand Oh, I am an American I know there's blood in the pavement and we turned the fields to sand Hey, I know where I come from, but I have a question Shall we the people never come home? For after all that we've been are the dreams to come after
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