American Soil-Ezra Furman

[ti:American Soil] [ar:Ezra Furman] [al:The Year Of No Returning] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]American Soil - Ezra Furman [00:23.44]There's something in the water [00:25.39]Something sick in the blood and the oil [00:28.58] [00:31.81]Here's the white chicken grinning [00:34.25]Here's the serpent in a horrible coil [00:37.83] [00:40.93]Don't be scared by the stared [00:43.68]Of the peasants on the subway car [00:46.76] [00:50.02]Because the way things [00:51.92]Seem in a dream is just the way [00:54.57]That they are [00:55.60] [00:59.04]And I can feel God taking [01:01.32]His eyes off you [01:03.53]You were born for American soil [01:08.09] [01:14.90]Every race has its place [01:17.54]Every nation fights for species survival [01:20.97] [01:23.87]I'm a Jew through and through [01:26.49]And I'm about to write you a Bible [01:30.44] [01:33.09]Now let me take your hand [01:34.83]And show you through the twisted [01:36.66]Hallways of the house of song [01:39.43] [01:41.97]We got the magazine wallpaper [01:44.88]And a million dollar bills on the lawn [01:48.26] [01:51.17]And you can feel God taking his eyes off us [01:55.84]We were born for American soil [02:00.29]Ah ah ah ah ah ah [02:06.64] [02:18.28]You don't have to be clever to detect [02:21.87]A big American sadness [02:24.53] [02:27.25]When the population rules [02:30.12]Every man has a hand in the madness [02:33.60] [02:36.55]There's a dead grove of trees [02:39.01]You can visit on the outside of town [02:42.52] [02:45.35]And there's a desolate dust [02:47.95]Inside the cemetery settling down [02:51.55] [02:54.49]And I can feel God taking his eyes off us [02:59.30]We were born for American soil [03:03.26] [03:10.69]Now we have seen every baby has to [03:13.27]Have some kind of mother and father [03:16.45] [03:19.44]But the child's gone wild [03:22.03]And the piece has got away from the author [03:25.48] [03:28.43]If freedom isn't free all the bills [03:31.78]Must just be lost in the mail [03:35.11] [03:37.90]Because the highways are on fire [03:40.04]And the serpent is now eating its tail [03:43.35] [03:46.11]And you can feel God taking his eyes off us [03:51.23]We were born for American soil