America - Anita, Rosalina And Girls

[ti:Girl America] [ar:Mat Kearney] [al:The Else] [by:HomToㄨYeah] [0:0]欢迎访问 我爱音乐 [00:05.48]Mat Kearney - Girl America [00:12.34]My girl America is just a youth in this world [00:14.69]Her smile is more precious than the sparkle of pearls [00:17.46]And though her age reads she's just a young girl [00:20.13]The age behind her eyes show the pain that she's swirled [00:22.78]Through the hand that's been dealt though it's quiet as kept [00:25.49]The weight that she felt last night when she slept [00:27.84]And as she crept into the dreams of the things of her past [00:30.81]Seems to have grown so fast, way beyond her own class [00:33.46]Though they're right there with her, her brothers and her sisters [00:36.12]A natural born leader even when her peers dis her [00:38.81]My girl, she's at a crossroads, people praying for her [00:41.34]Some are preying on her magazine ads, sex, drama [00:43.92]Smoking marijuana, longer for a father to call her, 'daughter' [00:46.82]She's part of a generation longing for reconciliation [00:49.54]And this future that they're facing and this poison that they're tasting [00:52.65]My girl, I know this love you're chasing[chorus] [03:14.55][02:53.26][00:55.94]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night [03:19.81][02:58.50][01:01.33]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom [03:25.11][03:03.95][02:10.75][01:06.55]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight [03:30.38][03:09.22][02:15.77][01:11.78]Don't stop believing, my girl America[01:16.45]Boys with hungry eyes have been beating her door [01:18.61]Telling her that's what she's for, trying to rob at her core [01:21.40]Then leave calling her a whore, but still she knows there's more [01:24.12]I know she knows there's more because there is a voice she can't ignore [01:26.64]'Cause it was founded in the foundations, from the day of her creation [01:30.03]In God we trust engraved on the treasures of her nation [01:32.65]And the void that the boys can't fill [01:34.68]With the tipping of the bottle or the popping of the pill [01:37.29]But still most of her friends don't care as they glare [01:40.07]Ready to drown down the funnel as they frown down the tunnel [01:42.60]They stumble and they tumble breaking down into rubble [01:45.35]My girl America, stop can't you see [01:47.65]It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be [01:50.68]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 [01:56.69]And so I say, your deliverance is coming end [chorus][02:21.06]Faith like a child from your first birth [02:23.63]You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt [02:26.35]And I see each tear and every scar [02:28.84]The hands that have held you where you are [02:31.50]And I can see we've strayed so far [02:34.15]A king born under that morning star [02:36.81]As a crown of thorns was placed to earase [02:39.55]Each tear that's touched your face [02:41.91]And his palms and sides were pierced with spears [02:44.78]He hung in love just to draw you near [02:47.67]My girl, out of this whole world [02:50.33]Can't you see this is where we started?