Wednesday 9 April 2008

America



she said the man in the gabardine suit is a spy...I said be careful his bow tie is really a camera...

I love the lyrics to this song and the way the words flow freely like conversation. It just seems to be aching for more verses...or maybe not. I'll have to sleep on it.
( I loved the Meatloaf commercial with his son asking for a cellphone. "Let me sleep on it." "Daddy, Daddy"....ah that's another song.

Let us be lovers well marry our fortunes together
Ive got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America
Kathy, 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
Ive 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 bow tie is really a camera

Toss me a cigarette, I think theres one in my 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

Kathy, 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 gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America

1 comment:

Angelissima said...

nobody hitchhikes anymore.
heck, one day me and _________
ditched school and hitchhiked to Manasquan on a bread truck.

hitchhiking just wasnt a big deal.
getting from point A to point B.

put your sixpack in the bike basket and away we go!