Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song America Will Eat You , by - Greg Brown. Song from the album One Big Town, in the genre Release date: 27.09.1989
Record label: Red House
Song language: English
America Will Eat You |
| There’s only so many times you can eat that |
| Rubber food |
| 'Till You’re gonna say, Well, I’m eating it |
| I guess it must be good |
| There’s only so many times you can sit |
| And watch tv- |
| Stay detached and think it’s stupid |
| And that you’re somehow free |
| America will eat you |
| America will eat you up |
| There’s only so many times you can be |
| Treated like dirt at the airport or the bank |
| 'Til you’re gonna say, Yeah, you’re right |
| I’m a bum I’m a dog I’m a roach |
| Thank you Thank you Thanks |
| Only so many times you can see some slick |
| Jerk rave about God |
| 'Til you’re gonna give it up and go to sleep |
| And slip into a pod- |
| We’re tempting little morsels on the |
| Corporation’s fork |
| If we show up with the right bits and bytes |
| They’ll fatten us like pork |
| And America will stretch her maw and show |
| Us her white teeth |
| It’s only when it’s much too late we see |
| The cancer underneath |
| Everything has a number |
| We all must drink our cup |
| All I ask is to know when my number’s up |
| Looking at these corpses talk |
| And laugh it up on tv |
| All I want is to never have to ask |
| Lord, which corpse is me? |