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I added some things here, mainly some more words ( a bridge and an outro ) and some more production.
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Lyrics
you see a star in the sky
i track the orbit of a television satellite
you hear the morning rain give flowerbeds some sustenance,
i hear the needle scrape the data on a hard drive
and your white teeth hide the yellow incisors youll never show
your smiles hoisted by the cheekbones red and salted from the flow in the night
of your american eyes
and we stayed up all night
the map was blue around the cities and the coastal lines
but then the shepherding the sound of the angels singing
the red it ran like a kitten in a rooster fight
behind the eyelashes a brown iris is covered by a lens
as a blue as new york city politics, oh noble citizens, i hear the cries
americanize
bridge:
in west central florida where the weather is warm
i swallowed some raindrops and i pissed out a storm
in a bathroom stall on nebraska avenue
then the sky opened up with droplets the size
of the oceans that pour from your american eyes
and i knew, god i knew
(a wind it blows every time you arrive
we're compelled by your guns to americanize
and then say, "god bless the usa"
i asked a man named jesus christ
to take some time to clarify what he meant
by the words he said
he said "i died, was crucified, was sacrificed
by american eyes that chose
how the story goes)
outro:
i know a man, he's nearly blind
got american flags on his american eyes
but he's free, like you and me
he dug a hole into the sand
and filled it in with american hands
some day, we'll walk away.
i track the orbit of a television satellite
you hear the morning rain give flowerbeds some sustenance,
i hear the needle scrape the data on a hard drive
and your white teeth hide the yellow incisors youll never show
your smiles hoisted by the cheekbones red and salted from the flow in the night
of your american eyes
and we stayed up all night
the map was blue around the cities and the coastal lines
but then the shepherding the sound of the angels singing
the red it ran like a kitten in a rooster fight
behind the eyelashes a brown iris is covered by a lens
as a blue as new york city politics, oh noble citizens, i hear the cries
americanize
bridge:
in west central florida where the weather is warm
i swallowed some raindrops and i pissed out a storm
in a bathroom stall on nebraska avenue
then the sky opened up with droplets the size
of the oceans that pour from your american eyes
and i knew, god i knew
(a wind it blows every time you arrive
we're compelled by your guns to americanize
and then say, "god bless the usa"
i asked a man named jesus christ
to take some time to clarify what he meant
by the words he said
he said "i died, was crucified, was sacrificed
by american eyes that chose
how the story goes)
outro:
i know a man, he's nearly blind
got american flags on his american eyes
but he's free, like you and me
he dug a hole into the sand
and filled it in with american hands
some day, we'll walk away.
TobinMueller
I always dig when people use contemporary items as
metaphors, but your lyrics do more than that, stringing
details with such an epic feel, expanding daily
intuitiveness into poetic and mythic commentary,
transforming a personal tune into an ambiguous and
provoking cautionary rant with such an effortless sense of
transition (that becomes, in itself, a powerful analogy).
Excellent lyrics. The demo quality of the performance, the
lack of chord progression interest, are things my ears
would rather hear differently, to rise to the level of the
lyrics, making it into a more compelling tune. Consider
expanding this idea with music to match?