My Girl America Lyrics

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 she's 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 when 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 ads, 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 this love that you're chasing

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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 her freedom

My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight

Don't stop believing, girl America

Boys with hungry eyes have been beating her door

Telling her that's what's 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 adore

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
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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 tunnel

They stumble and they tumble, breaking down into rubble

My girl America, stop, 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'

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Faith like a child from your first birth

You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt

And I see each tear and 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

As a crown of thorns was placed to erase

Each tear that's touched your face

His palms and sides were pierced with speares

He hung in love just to draw you near

My girl, out of this whole world

Can't you see this is where we started

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His palms and sides were pierced with speares

He hung in love just to draw you near

My girl, out of this whole world

Can't you see this is where we started

Where we started, where we started, my girl America