| You can drive across the whole thing
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| In four days
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| If you really wanted
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| Leaving custom thank you notes
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| In all the houses you ever haunted
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| In this whole solar system
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| We’ve only met one type of life
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| It’s the living kind of life
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| And it’s not one I recognize
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| America
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| America
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| America
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| America
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| America
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| America
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| America
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| Ameri
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| I said «excuse me"to the ocean
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| Because I thought I had got in its way
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| At first I didn’t think it heard me
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| But then I saw it wave
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| You can spend every living moment thinking
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| How can I get out alive?
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| But is it really then, can you really call it
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| Hey man, just shut up and drive
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| I thought we’d be on the road all night when that ice storm hit in Texas
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| And when we pulled into the gas station
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| It was like a frozen oasis
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| Oh, sweet mama, does that neon sign shine for me?
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| Is there a street where my name glows all through the night?
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| And I’ve never read (America)
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| No I’ve never been (America)
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| I just never went (America)
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| I have never seen (America)
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| And I’ve never read (America)
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| No I’ve never been (America)
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| I just never went (America)
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| I have never seen (America)
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| All my fantasies are faking orgasms
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| They’re only in it for the money I made up for them
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| I trade in ideas, opinion and artistry
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| And my face is on every dollar
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| This is heaven but heaven is here
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| This is heaven but heaven is hard
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| Because your lover is listening to music you don’t know
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| And you’re tangled up in the headphone wires
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| You know our problems, they don’t end
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| Just because we get boy/girlfriends
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| Is this your salvation plan?
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| Is this your salvation plan?
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| There’s only one type of love
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| It’s the loving kind of love
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| But when you’re mad at me it’s the end of times
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| And I’m mad at you all the other times
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| Have I ever really been in love?
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| I guess I’ve never really been in love
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| Have I ever really
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| Not in the way I’m thinking
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| And I’ve never read (America)
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| No I’ve never been (America)
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| I just never went (America)
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| I have never seen (America)
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| Real life’s a mess
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| But at least you’re not paying rent
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| You’ve been making it, maybe even breaking even
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| You oughta be content
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| It doesn’t make sense
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| You’re still sitting on the fence
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| When the yard is yours
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| And it was money well spent
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| And I’ve never read
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| No, I’ve never been
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| I just never went
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| I have never seen
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| America
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| America
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| Democracy
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| Biographies
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| Civil rights! |
| basically
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| Bright lights! |
| living in the city
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| Second prize in a beauty pageant
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| 200 dollars, this is life, this is your life!
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| America!
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| This is heaven
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| This is the place |