Girl America-Mat Kearney

[00:00.00] 作词 : Mat Kearney/Robert Marvin [00:01.00] 作曲 : Mat Kearney/Robert Marvin [00:12.10]My girl America is just a youth in this world [00:14.72]Her smile is more precious than the sparkle of pearls [00:17.22]And though her age reads she's just a young girl [00:19.85]The age behind her eyes show the pain that she's swirled [00:22.60]Through the hand that's been dealt though it's quiet as kept [00:25.28]The weight that she felt last night when she slept [00:27.85]And as she crept into the dreams of the things of her past [00:30.66]Seems to have grown so fast, way beyond her own class [00:33.07]Though they're right there with her, her brothers and her sisters [00:35.88]A natural born leader even when her peers dis her [00:38.57]My girl, she's at a crossroads, people praying for her [00:41.25]Some are preying on her magazine ads, sex, drama [00:43.69]Smoking weed, longing for a father her, to 'daughter' call [00:46.73]She's part of a generation longing for reconciliation [00:48.79] [00:49.42]And this future that they're facing and this poison that they're tasting [00:52.79] [00:55.66]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night [01:00.73]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom [01:05.73]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight [01:11.23] [01:13.87]Boys with hungry eyes have been beating her door [01:18.59]Telling her that's what she's for, trying to rob at her core [01:21.11]Then leave calling her a whore, but still she knows there's more [01:23.68]I know she knows there's more because there is a voice she can't ignore [01:26.62]'Cause it was founded in the foundations, from the day of her creation [01:29.61]In God we trust engraved on the treasures of her nation [01:32.49]And the void that the boys can't fill [01:34.37]With the tipping of the bottle or the popping of the pill [01:37.24]But still most of her friends don't care as they glare [01:39.80]Ready to drown down the funnel as they frown down the tunnel [01:42.36]They stumble and they tumble breaking down into rubble [01:44.99]My girl America, stop can't you see [01:47.42]It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be [01:51.30]But how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way [01:53.93]It's for you that I pray with hope for a brighter day [01:56.49]I say, And so your deliverance is coming [01:58.85] [02:09.87]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight [02:15.69] [02:21.36]Faith like a child from your first birth [02:23.50]You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt [02:25.87]And I see each tear and every scar [02:28.31] [02:28.82]The hands that have held you where you are [02:31.38]And I can see we've strayed so far [02:34.19]A king born under that morning star [02:36.62]As a crown of thorns was placed to earase [02:39.31]Each tear that's touched your face [02:41.63]And his palms and sides were pierced with spears [02:44.50]He hung in love just to draw you near [02:47.25]My girl, out of this whole world [02:49.69] [02:50.32]Can't you see this is where we started? [02:52.94]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night [02:58.00]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom [03:03.07]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight [03:08.95]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night [03:19.02] [03:19.52]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom [03:23.96] [03:24.90]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight