There's a black man with a black cat livin' in a black neighborhood
He's
got an interstate runnin' through his front yard
You know he thinks
that he's got it so good
And there's a woman in the kitchen cleanin'
up the evenin' slop
And he looks at her and says, "Hey darlin', I can
remember when
you could stop a clock."
CHORUS:
Oh but
ain't that America for you and me
Ain't that America somethin' to see
baby
Ain't that America home of the free
Little pink houses for
you and me
There's a young man in a t-shirt
Listenin' to a rockin'
rollin' station
He's got greasy hair, greasy smile
He says, "Lord
this must be my destination."
'Cause they told me when I was younger
"Boy
you're gonna be president."
But just like everything else those old
crazy dreams
Just kinda came and went
:|| CHORUS
Well
there's people and more people
What do they know know know
Go to
work in some high rise
And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico
Ooh
yeah
And ther's winners and there's losers
But they ain't no big
deal
'Cause the simple man baby pays for the thrills, the bills,
the
pills that kill
這首歌是John Cougar Mellencamp於1983年《Uh-Huh》專輯裡的一首歌,這首歌是在印弟安納州的農莊所錄製的,靈感是來自歌手開車在路上,看到一位老黑人在間小屋,手臂上還有一隻貓,看到這幕所產生的靈感。
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