Smells Like America

The David Brothers Smells Like America Lyrics
1.Heartache

Like a ghost train coming*
Or a pistol to the back .
You've changed your mind one more time
Leaving blood on the tracks

And I won't care to take
Nothing more or nothing less
You never, never, never, never tried
From the start of it

The heartache
It's always there
It's always there

Like the rain the summer prays for
You just came too late
I'm not waiting for the crop to turn
I need something on my plate

I won't care to take
Nothing more or nothing less
You never, never, never, never tried
To make more of it

The heartache
it's always there
it's always there

I won't care to take
Nothing more or nothing less
You never, never, never, never tried
From the start of it

The heartache
It's always there
Its always there


2.Born Loser

Like the heartless erection*
That falls in shame
The sinking ship
Without a name

The wealthy thief, the gifted lush,
The politician who's been hushed
The boxer who just wouldn't stop
The cocky gambler drinks too much
The critic always in a rush
Every bomb we've ever dropped

I'm a born loser
I throw my lucky card away

Worried wives
with perfect hair
In perfect houses
with Saran wrapped chairs

Pushers and addicts think they're friends
The ones who wait for the day to end
The thinkers who won't work overtime
The genius leader filled with hate
Dying breeds that masturbate
The cops who create the crime

I'm a born loser
I throw my lucky card away

On a pilgrimage
pushed and shoved
That bitter taste
you've learned to love

Those who preach with a phony crutch
Clergy crying wolf too much
The painter selling much too high
The ones who hunt the albatross
Killers who hide behind the cross
Man made rivers going dry

I'm a born loser
I throw my lucky card away


3.Let It Be Me

I'd rather watch Mexican TV*
Than to finish this talk with you
There's no other end of the bargain
I've done everything I can do
There's a war outside won't you let me in
I'm not the traitor saving his skin
I'm not saving my skin

If you want to drink
You better do it right
If you want to argue
then put up a fight
If you want to cry
Than do it at night
Because I don't want to see
If you want to go
then go and hit the road
If you want to stay
Just say so
If you want love
Let it be me

I'd rather dig a hole to china
Than to go on convincing you
I'm not like the ones who came before
Don't compare this to something you knew
Our days are numbered and I don't want to count
One of these days they'll all run out
One of these days they'll all run out

So if you want to drink
You better do it right
If you want to argue
then put up a fight
If you want to cry
Than do it at night
Because I don't want to see
If you want to go
then go and hit the road
If you want to stay
Just say so
If you want love
Let it be me


4.Long Way Home

I don't want to work*
I don't want to work with the rifle
I don't want to work
I don't want to work with the gun
I don't want to live
I don't want to live for the Bible

I've seen the things it's done
And babe, take it easy
No one can hurt me
Like you do
I don't care for freedom
Or any country
More than you

It's a long way home
It's a long way home
To where we used to be

I don't want to sleep
I don't want to sleep in the desert
No I don't want to see
the stars from here
I don't want to fight
I don't want to fight for tomorrow
Without you
It can all disappear

And Babe, take it easy
You don't know what you're
Saying to me
All I've got
Is the knowing
You'll wait for me

It's a long way home
It's a long way home


5.Go On And Tell The World

You said so much last night*
Holding your tonic too tight
Every eavesdropping drunk in the bar felt
Out of place
When you stood on the table and said you loved me
I was shaking like a child
All the lights in the room shined on your face
As we waited for what you'd say

Go on and tell the world babe
Go on and tell the world
Go on and tell the world babe
It's me and you

I wish my heart was like yours
You give everything you've got
all the sweetest things that I've ever known
I pushed away
I don't know why I do the things I do
I hate that I do them to you
I realize I have to change inside
But I swear I'm trying to

Go on and tell the world babe
Go on and tell the world
Go on and tell the world babe
It's me and you


6.Smells Like America

Woke up to the frying pan*
The bacon shaking in her hand
I got hungry

Made love on the balcony
The sound of cars honking on the street
She was lovely

London never missed her
Paris never called
Nobody's wondering
If she's coming home

Smells like America
Smells like pork and beans
Smells like Jesus Christ
and the money I've never seen
But I'm an English girl
and I don't look back
Saving up for a Cadillac
Going to buy America

Sometimes, all the time
She wants what she just can't find
When will I know?
A Ballerina, a ticket taker
at the empty movie theatre
To the left, enjoy the show

Daddy never missed her
Mother never called
Nobody even knows
That she ever left home

Smells like America
Smells like pork and beans
Smells like a smoking gun
and Elvis Presley
I'm an English girl
and I don't look back
Saving up for a Cadillac
Going to buy America

She wants to ride the carousel
The white horse with a silver bell
get a new tattoo
Skull and bones,purple ink
from the carny with his arm in a sling
I guess I'll get one too

London never missed her
Paris never called
Nobody even knows that she
ever left home

Smells like America
Smells like pork and beans
Smells like Jesus Christ
and the money I've never seen
But I'm an English girl
and I don't look back
Saving up for a Cadillac
Going to buy America


7.Stay Young

I was running from something I didn't know what*
I was breathing like a dog in heat
She was high on the hog I was lost in the fog
Said I'm getting too old for this shit

And I knew she was crazy
I knew but I didn't care
And you know there was nothing more
She had to say right then

Stay young
Stay young with me

We had another round at a bar downtown
She was dancing with a pint on her head
It shattered on the floor so she ordered 2 more
And laughed each time again

And I knew it wasn't easy
To live the way she does
Forgiveness coming easily
when you're only having fun

Stay young
Stay young with me

Looking for a bed to rest our heads
Found a place where they charge by the hour
She was half undressed at the check out desk
he gave us service with a smile

And I heard a little bird
Whisper something in my ear
The words she said a thousand times
They all came clear

Stay young
Stay young with me