America (Never Been)

You can drive across the whole thing

In four days if you really wanted

Leaving custom thank-you notes

In all the houses you ever haunted

In this whole solar system

We've only met one type of life

It's the living kind of life

And it's not one I recognize

America, America

America, America

America, America

America, America

One-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight

I said, "Excuse me" to the ocean

Because I thought I had got in its way

At first, I didn't think it heard me

But then, I saw it wave

You can spend every living moment thinking

"How can I get out alive?"

But is it really, then? Can you really call it?

Hey, man, just shut up and drive

I thought we'd be on the road all night

When that ice storm hit in Texas

And when we pulled into the gas station

It was like a frozen oasis

Oh, sweet mama, does that neon sign shine for me?

Is there a street where my name glows all through the night?

And I've never read (America)

No, I've never been (America)

I just never went (America)

I have never seen (America)

And I've never wrote (America)

I have never been (America)

No, I never spoke (America)

All I want to see (America)

All my fantasies are faking orgasms

They're only in it for the money I made up for them

I trade in ideas, opinions and artistry

And my face is on every dollar

This is Heaven, but Heaven is here (this is Heaven, but Heaven is here)

This is Heaven, but Heaven is hard (this is Heaven, but Heaven is hard)

Because your lover is listening to music you don't know

And you're tangled up in the headphone wires

You know our problems, they don't end

Just because we get boy/girlfriends

Is this your salvation plan?

Is this your salvation plan?

Ah, there's only one type of love

It's the loving kind of love

But when you're mad at me, it's the end of times

And I'm mad at you all the other times

Have I ever really (been in love)?

I guess I've never really (been in love)

Have I ever really (been in love)?

Not in the way I'm thinking (been in love)

Never really (been in love)

I've just never really (been in love)

Oh, have I ever really (been in love)?

No, no, I've never really (been in love)

Real life's a mess

But at least, you're not paying rent

You've been making it, maybe even breaking, even

You oughta be content

It doesn't make sense

You're still sitting on the fence

When the yard is yours

And it was money well spent

And I've never read (America)

No, I've never been (America)

I just never went (America)

I have never seen (America)

America (America)

America (America)

Democracy (America)

Biographies (America)

Civil rights, basically (America)

Bright lights, living in the city (America)

Second prize in a beauty pageant (America)

200 dollars, this is life, this is your life (America)

America (America)

America (America)

This is Heaven (America)

I think that this is Heaven (America)

This is the place (America)

This is the place (America)

This is the place (America)

This is the place (America)