Searching For America-Janis Ian

[ti:Searching For America] [ar:Janis Ian] [al:Playlist: The Very Best Of Janis Ian] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Searching For America - Janis Ian (珍妮斯·艾恩) [00:21.73]Where have you been that made you weep [00:24.72] [00:26.81]And left these stains upon your cheek [00:30.24] [00:32.52]What did you see while you were gone [00:35.18] [00:37.80]That haunts your eyes this sunny dawn [00:40.69] [00:42.69]They herded us like so much meat [00:47.06] [00:47.83]Up from the sewers to the street [00:51.40] [00:53.48]Where concrete canyons stretched their walls [00:57.42] [00:58.85]So high it made us want to crawl [01:02.25] [01:04.27]Past proverbs writ on subway cars [01:07.72] [01:09.46]And in-between the window bars [01:12.58] [01:14.52]We walked until the pavement bled [01:18.66] [01:20.44]And not a curse was left unsaid [01:23.00] [01:25.39]Into a place that knows no spring [01:28.27]Where only steel and silver sing [01:31.00]They made us dance until we dropped [01:33.57]And the music of the jackhammers stopped [01:37.51] [01:42.50]I caught a cinder in my eye [01:45.79]Searching for a patch of sky [01:48.76] [01:51.70]But the shadows drizzled down like in Pompeii [01:55.99]That's how I spent my yesterday [01:58.75] [02:01.88]Searching for America [02:05.72] [02:06.85]In the rivets and the rust [02:09.97] [02:12.47]Searching for America [02:16.43] [02:18.01]Finding only dust [02:20.39] [02:24.26]What did you see that made you cry [02:27.84] [02:29.31]And left these trackmarks on your eye [02:32.86] [02:34.98]What did you find while you were there [02:37.93] [02:39.36]That sucks the light out of the morning air [02:43.25] [02:45.40]They gave us each a cropper's shack [02:48.72] [02:50.85]And land so hard it broke our back [02:53.69] [02:55.73]Then fed us 'til our bellies burst [02:59.74] [03:01.46]On promises that died at birth [03:04.56] [03:06.43]So I lay the baby out each dawn [03:10.03] [03:12.09]In-between the tender corn [03:15.45] [03:17.39]With sunrise for her bonnet [03:20.22] [03:22.42]And flies her only blanket [03:25.11] [03:28.16]We harvested until we bled [03:30.75]'Til every single root ran red [03:33.42]And when the work was finally done [03:36.12]They gave our names to immigration [03:40.93] [03:45.73]I did not know how bad it hurt [03:48.07]Until I lay there eating dirt [03:50.82] [03:54.72]And the cold seeped in between my bones [03:58.81]That's where I was when I left home [04:01.30] [04:04.39]Searching for America [04:08.58] [04:09.53]All her dreams and hopes [04:12.72] [04:15.01]Searching for America [04:20.34]Finding only ghosts [04:23.18] [04:48.39]Who are these people you have seen [04:51.69] [04:53.59]To dream this dark and distant dream [04:56.46] [04:58.72]To tell the stories you have told [05:02.36] [05:03.84]To leave these bruises on your soul [05:07.23] [05:09.17]They are the flesh they are the bone [05:13.31] [05:14.71]They are the very cornerstone [05:18.16] [05:19.91]They leave their mansions and their shacks [05:23.24] [05:25.17]To hide here in-between the cracks [05:28.27] [05:30.61]Their hope is tattooed on my lips [05:33.79] [05:36.33]Bleeding from my fingertips [05:39.15] [05:40.68]They are crawling toward the promised land [05:44.49] [05:46.20]Hand over hand [05:49.12] [05:51.68]To walk until they run no more [05:54.68]And wash up on some distant shore [05:57.44]Where truth is not the enemy [06:00.16]And whatever does not kill us sets us free [06:05.18] [06:08.85]Somewhere out there [06:12.55]Are millions just like me [06:15.41] [06:19.35]Homesick for Eden [06:22.62]Heartsick at the memory [06:25.43] [06:28.14]Searching for America [06:31.59] [06:33.29]In every stick and stone [06:36.05] [06:38.85]Searching for America [06:43.45] [06:44.77]Going home [06:46.65] [06:49.46]Searching for America [06:54.58] [06:55.44]Going home