America (The Song) versuri

Versuri Max DiRado – America (The Song) lyrics

[Verse 1]
Wisdom is a prison when a fool takes charge
You were staring out the window of the getaway car
You wish that you could rest but you can’t sit still
Like a shopping cart wheel that won’t bend to your will

„It will one day be enough,” said the voice of death
Your God is a secret you hold close to the vest
And faith is as seductive as is getting undressed
A shopping cart wheel that always pulls to the left

Life is a train track tied to your hands and your feet
And time is the smoke approaching over the trees
And you can bleed, you can bleed if you want to be freed
Or you can take to the streets
You can fall to your knees
But you can’t run

[Verse 2]
You run to your car in hopes of beating the traffic
Bеcause a car stuck in traffic might as well be a caskеt
„Anger is default, love takes practice”
Writes the writer before writing himself kissing the actress

Wisdom is a prison and your heart stands guard
You could dance to your heart when it beats this hard
So you think, that’s it, tomorrow, I will do what I need
But just to park, cook, clean, TV, need your sleep

Well, if you don’t sit down and write, the words will surely pass
The moment that you finish, the world comes in quite fast
And other times, you sit and wait, fishing line cast
And you cast and you cast and you cast and you cast
Then the hook

[Hook]
If you think something’s there, put your hands in the air
If you think something’s there, put your hands in the air
What do I know about the burdens you bear?
Your love is not mine, it isn’t something we share

[Verse 3]
Wisdom is a prison when a fool takes charge
You were staring out the window of the getaway car
Hold me to your lips, your heart feels far
I could open my mouth, I’d rather not start

Well, it’s the humdrum beat of the rest of your life
It’s the thumb up your bum from your trophy wife
Another lifeless zeitgeist, it’s the rapey nightlife
It’s ‘the first two soups sucked, oh, but this one’s just right’

The past is a dog that keeps chasing its tail
You’ve been making that bread but it tastes sour and stale

[Spoken]
I gotta go spin my curry…
Give me a second…
Give me a second, I need to get my story straight…
Do-do…
D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-

[Verse 4]
Don’t make it timeless, your arrogance to think
You’ll be the talk of this town in 3006
I’m right here, I’m right now
Sing something for me
If you won’t, then I’ll find someway else to be free

I’m sick of playing games, here, I show my hand
Normal people are the strangest ones to understand
Look long enough at the mirror and it makes you kind
Look long enough in your lover
And you might just find
Some piece of mind

[Verse 5]
Her goodness always looked to you unscathed
But behind doors, her portrait ages, warps and fades
Cracks and rages, yellows its pages
Eyes like prisons, thoughts like cages
Oh, this is not a person, this is Calvin Klein
And this is not a revolution, this is graphic design
And this is not a protest, this is stalling for time
And this is not poetic, this is losing my mind

And then it’s stoic! Stoic!
And then burst into tears
In the 15 minute breaks inside a lifelong career
I’ve got a gag in my mouth, a leash round my neck
They called it a trade, I call it money for sex

It’s the hot girls on YouTube who are covering „Creep”
With a whispery voice and pearly white teeth
I know it’s only a commercial but it makes me weep
I know it’s more than you expected but you pay for cheap

From the heat of the concrete to the cool of the grass
The future used to sparkle, now I’m drawn to the past
It’s the crack of the stick while you’re mowing your lawn
It’s your nickels and your dimes and what you spend them on

Now the Gatorade is only when I’m sick in my bed
Now I masturbate only when I’m sick in my head
Now I take a stand just so I can stretch my legs
Now I raise my hands only when He’s killing my friends

[Bridge]
I’ve known love and I’ve known hope
I’ve known cliche and I’ve known trope
I’ve known flat and I’ve known slope
I’ve known sorrow and I’ve known rope

[Verse 6]
I used to be a child, I was stupid and free
Who domesticated the wild in me?
Who is petting my head? Who is holding my leash?
Now I don’t shit on my own ‘cause I want my treat!

I don’t want a leash, baby, I want a chain
To be something unadmitted, something deep in the grain
I wanna start the revolution that puts me in the ground
I want to be there when the tree falls, I want to hear the sound

Grasping the abstractions, it’s the first gray hair
I didn’t cry out in terror, I wasn’t even scared
The rain doesn’t fall, it just hangs in the air
Sure, you can get me to see it, think you can get me to care?

Now underneath my pillow, I put hair that I lose
It’s not the quarter that I need but the magic I could use
I like to feel in control, I like watching the news
Set my alarm a little early ‘cause I like to hit snooze

America, I’ve given you the hope in me
My joy is not so visceral but a coping need
America, I don’t know what you want from me
But I know enough to know when someone’s taunting me

Maybe it’s the parts of me I’m scared to explore
My sister’s underwear I won’t admit that I wore
Or what I saw in the mirror, the way that I fear her
Maybe it’s pretending like I still don’t hear her

America! Please! Or I’ll start thinking about dying
All your pop stars are sad so I’ve stopped playing music driving
Now it’s podcasts or just some peace and quiet
It’s helping me lose weight, this and the paleo diet

If you killed yourself, you’d end it: racism, war
Here’s the people who would miss you, here’s how long they’d miss you for
Now here’s your parents crying over you, you selfish whore
Fuck you for even thinking ‘bout it, don’t think of it anymore

Drive slower when I’m merging, please, you arrogant fuck
You American flag, freedom gag, cuck in a truck
I’m in traffic, I’m stuck, I’m a schmuck outta luck
God, I really love people
I just don’t like them much