To Be American letra

To be American again
Teenaged and certain of innocence
Six lanes of Western caravan
Burn fuel to speed up the renaissance

Before the trench coats and the roped-off rooms
The shell-shocked mothers and the TV crews

Foreclosing a grand, old dream
Black motorcade running on empty
Big box and a Ponzi scheme
Drain everything, land of the plenty

In high school, I sang in the choir
With all the Mormons from Rohnert Park
Now all their houses are on fire
Strangе glow of oxblood in the dark

I think we all meant wеll, or so I thought
That season, privilege was a parking spot

Foreclosing a grand, old dream
Black motorcade running on empty
Big box and a Ponzi scheme
Drain everything, land of the plenty

If Reconstruction and the War
Seemed distant back in eleventh grade
How quaint our simple lives before
Seem now in face of the coming days

Foreclosing a grand, old dream
Black motorcade running on empty
Big box and a Ponzi scheme
Drain everything, land of the plenty

Our furniture's on the street
In every church, last rites are spoken
One criminal’s soft defeat
Can't change the fact that we're broken

Gabriel Kahane - Letras

• 7 Middagh
• 8980
• Ambassador Hotel (3400 Wilshire Blvd.)
• Arnold Corrects The Papers While My Grandmother Washes His Children
• Baedeker
• Baltimore
• Barn Song (feat. Brad Mehldau)
• Black Garden (2673 Dundee Pl.)
• Bradbury (304 Broadway)
• Calabash & Catamaran
• Charming Disease
• Chemex
• Die Traumdeutung
• Durrants
• Empire Liquor Mart (9127 S. Figueroa St.)
• Friends Of Friends Of Bill
• Fughetta
• Great Lakes
• Griffith Park (2800 E. Observatory Ave.)
• Hot Pink Raingear
• Icebox
• Interlude
• Keene
• LA
• Last Dance
• Linda & Stuart
• Little Love
• Magnificent Bird
• Merritt Pkwy
• Model Trains
• Musso and Frank (6667 Hollywood Blvd​.​)
• North Adams (feat. Timo Andres)
• November
• October 1, 1939 / Port Of Hamburg
• Parts Of Speech
• Rochester (feat. Sam Amidon)
• Side Streets
• Singing With a Stranger
• Sit Shiva
• Slow Down (feat. Sufjan Stevens)
• Slumlord Crocodile (115 E. 3rd St​.​)
• The Basement Engineer
• The Faithful
• The Hazelnut Tree
• To Be American
• Twice In The Night
• Underberg
• Union Station (800 N. Alameda St.)
• Veda (1 Pierce Dr.)
• Villains (4616 Dundee Dr.)
• Villanelles (feat. Chris Thile)
• We Are The Saints
• What If I Told You
• Where Are The Arms
• Wie Soll Ich Dich Empfangen
• Winter Song