America

America if I could I would tighten my eyes to the smoke Between your ribs And wake up in your heart America If I could I would find you now I'd tell you we are but a broken ornament Swinging on a fraying string in America In America America, save your traffic for another hour Love your oil mill and your box car Save your can't instead as fuel Dare to sing your limits From the ash fields and quarries We are a dripping city The sweat that smears the phonebook ink The sweat that smears the phonebook ink In America In America In Franklin, Indiana Your nuclear froths like mad animal Your lakeshore strobe a bourbon And the slat of passing freight America save your traffic for another hour Love your oil mill and your box car Save your can't instead as fuel Dare to sing your limits from the ash fields and quarries Your live oak A Georgia shackle Your love oak A Georgia shackle Your arroyo A wailing wall And to it all tonight Wrap yourself in Kansas flag Ad astra per aspera tonight Wrap yourself in Kansas flag Ad astra per aspera tonight Let the reapers in the forty bathe in star tonight Let the reapers in the forty bathe in star tonight Let the reapers in the forty bathe in star tonight Let the reapers in the forty bathe in star tonight America