《Searching For America》歌词

歌曲： Searching For America

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歌手： Janis Ian

时长： 08:23

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Searching For America - Janis Ian[00:00:00]

Where have you been that made you weep[00:00:21]

And left these stains upon your cheek[00:00:26]

What did you see while you were gone[00:00:32]

That haunts your eyes this sunny dawn[00:00:37]

They herded us like so much meat[00:00:42]

Up from the sewers to the street[00:00:47]

Where concrete canyons stretched their walls[00:00:53]

So high it made us want to crawl[00:00:58]

Past proverbs writ on subway cars[00:01:04]

And in-between the window bars[00:01:09]

We walked until the pavement bled[00:01:14]

And not a curse was left unsaid[00:01:20]

Into a place that knows no spring[00:01:25]

Where only steel and silver sing[00:01:28]

They made us dance until we dropped[00:01:31]

And the music of the jackhammers stopped[00:01:33]

I caught a cinder in my eye[00:01:42]

Searching for a patch of sky[00:01:45]

But the shadows drizzled down like in Pompeii[00:01:51]

That's how I spent my yesterday[00:01:55]

Searching for America[00:02:01]

In the rivets and the rust[00:02:06]

Searching for America[00:02:12]

Finding only dust[00:02:18]

What did you see that made you cry[00:02:24]

And left these trackmarks on your eye[00:02:29]

What did you find while you were there[00:02:34]

That sucks the light out of the morning air[00:02:39]

They gave us each a cropper's shack[00:02:45]

And land so hard it broke our back[00:02:50]

Then fed us 'til our bellies burst[00:02:55]

On promises that died at birth[00:03:01]

So I lay the baby out each dawn[00:03:06]

In-between the tender corn[00:03:12]

With sunrise for her bonnet[00:03:17]

And flies her only blanket[00:03:22]

We harvested until we bled[00:03:28]

'Til every single root ran red[00:03:30]

And when the work was finally done[00:03:33]

They gave our names to immigration[00:03:36]

I did not know how bad it hurt[00:03:45]

Until I lay there eating dirt[00:03:48]

And the cold seeped in between my bones[00:03:54]

That's where I was when I left home[00:03:58]

Searching for America[00:04:04]

All her dreams and hopes[00:04:09]

Searching for America[00:04:15]

Finding only ghosts[00:04:20]

Who are these people you have seen[00:04:48]

To dream this dark and distant dream[00:04:53]

To tell the stories you have told[00:04:58]

To leave these bruises on your soul[00:05:03]

They are the flesh they are the bone[00:05:09]

They are the very cornerstone[00:05:14]

They leave their mansions and their shacks[00:05:19]

To hide here in-between the cracks[00:05:25]

Their hope is tattooed on my lips[00:05:30]

Bleeding from my fingertips[00:05:36]

They are crawling toward the promised land[00:05:40]

Hand over hand[00:05:46]

To walk until they run no more[00:05:51]

And wash up on some distant shore[00:05:54]

Where truth is not the enemy[00:05:57]

And whatever does not kill us sets us free[00:06:00]

Somewhere out there[00:06:08]

Are millions just like me[00:06:12]

Homesick for Eden[00:06:19]

Heartsick at the memory[00:06:22]

Searching for America[00:06:28]

In every stick and stone[00:06:33]

Searching for America[00:06:38]

Going home[00:06:44]

Searching for America[00:06:49]

Going home[00:06:55]