Friday 27 April 2007

America


These are a couple of songs I’ve woken up hearing recently. America I heard the other morning and it went along with a dream I don’t remember. American Dream I’ve woken up with on numerous occasions and also don’t recall any dreams that may have accompanied it.

Saginaw always drums up images of the Mackinac Bridge, don't know if that has anything to do with anything but it is a remarkable structure all the same.





American Dream ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

I used to see you on every T.V.
Your smiling face looked back at me
I used to see you on every T.V.
Your smiling face looked back at me
Then they caught you with the girl next door
People's money piled on the floor
Accusations that you try to deny
Revelations and rumors begin to fly
Now you think about reaching out
Maybe get some help from above
Now you think about reaching out
Maybe get some help from above
Reporters crowd around your house
Going through your garbage like a pack of hounds
Speculating what they may find out
It don't matter now, you're all washed up
You wake up in the middle of the night
Your sheets are wet and your face is white
You tried to make a good thing last
How could something so good, go bad, so fast
American dream, American dream
American dream, American dream
Don't know when things went wrong
Might have been when you were young and strong
Don't know when things went wrong
Might have been when you were young and strong
Reporters crowd around your house
Going through your garbage like a pack of hounds
Speculating what they may find out
It don't matter now, you're all washed up
Don't know when things went wrong
Might have been when you were young and strong
American dream, American dream
Don't know when things went wrong
Might have been when you were young and strong
American dream, American dream
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America ~ Simon & Garfunkle

Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in the raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenery she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Cathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America