Mat Kearney - Girl America lyrics

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Verse 1

My girl America is just a youth in this world

Her smile is more precious than the sparkle of pearls

And though her age reads shes just a young girl

Age behind her eyes show the pain that she's swirled

Through the hand that's been dealt though it's quiet as kept

The weight was all felt last night as she slept

And as she crept into the dreams of the things of her past

seems to have grown so fast, way beyond her own class

though they're right there with her, hers brothers and her sisters

A natural born leader even when her peers diss her

My girl, she's at a crossroads, people praying for her

Some are preying on her magazine ad's, sex, drama, smoking marajuana

Longing for a father to call her 'daughter'

She's part of a generation longing for reconciliation

And this future that they're facing and this poison that they're tasting

My girl, I know it's love that your chasing

(Chorus)

My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night

I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for freedom

My girl America's dying while she's trying hard to stop this fighting

Don't stop believing, my girl America

Verse 2

Boys with hungry eyes have been knocking at her door

Telling her that's whats she's for, trying to rob her at her core

Then leave calling her a whore, but still she knows there's more

I know she knows there's more because there's a voice she can't ignore

'Cause it was founded in the foundations, from the day of her creation

In God we trust engraved in the treasures of her nation

And the void the boys can't fill

With the tippin' of the bottle or the poppin' of the pill

But still most of her friends don't care as they glare

ready to drown the funnel as they frown down the funnel

As the stumble and they tumble breaking down into rubble

My girl America, can't you see

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be

But how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way

It's for you that I pray with hope for a brighter day

So I say, your deliverance is comin'

(Chorus)

Bridge

Faith like a child from your first birth

You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt

And I see each tear in every scar

The hands that have held you where you are

And I can see we've strayed so far

A king born under that morning star

A crown of thorns that was placed to erace

Each tear that touched your face

His palms and sides were pierced with speres

He hung in love just to draw you near

My girl not of tis world

Can't you see this is where we started

(Chorus) X2

His palms and sides were pierced with speres

He hung in love just to draw you near

My girl not of tis world

Can't you see this is where we started...

Where we started....where we started, my girl America<br><br>Thanks to thudord