[ti:Girl America] [ar:MAT KEARNEY] [al:Nothing Left To Lose (2006)] [00:05.70] [00:11.52]MAT KEARNEY - Girl America [00:12.38]Album : Nothing Left To Lose (2006) [00:12.77] [00:14.04]My girl America is just a youth in this world [00:16.13]Her smile is more precious than the sparkle of pearls [00:18.83]And though her age reads she's just a young girl [00:21.72]The age behind her eyes show the pain that she's swirled [00:24.38]Through the hand that's been dealt though it's quiet as kept [00:26.98]The weight that she felt last night when she slept [00:29.54]And as she crept into the dreams of the things of her past [00:32.19]Seems to have grown so fast, way beyond her own class [00:34.57]Though they're right there with her, her brothers and her sisters [00:37.36]A natural born leader even when her peers dis her [00:40.30]My girl, she's at a crossroads, people praying for her [00:43.38]Some are preying on her magazine ads, sex, drama [00:45.30]Smoking marijuana, longer for a father to call her, 'daughter' [00:48.57]She's part of a generation longing for reconciliation [00:51.47]And this future that they're facing and this poison that they're tasting [00:54.57]My girl, I know this love you're chasing [00:56.32] [00:57.56]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night [01:02.00]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom [01:07.35]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight [01:12.85]Don't stop believing, my girl America [01:17.42] [01:17.86]Boys with hungry eyes have been beating her door [01:19.85]Telling her that's what she's for, trying to rob at her core [01:22.34]Then leave calling her a whore, but still she knows there's more [01:25.42]I know she knows there's more because there is a voice she can't ignore [01:28.43]'Cause it was founded in the foundations, from the day of her creation [01:31.40]In God we trust engraved on the treasures of her nation [01:34.05]And the void that the boys can't fill [01:36.14]With the tipping of the bottle or the popping of the pill [01:38.70]But still most of her friends don't care as they glare [01:41.33]Ready to drown down the funnel as they frown down the tunnel [01:43.92]They stumble and they tumble breaking down into rubble [01:46.91]My girl America, stop can't you see [01:49.04]It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be [01:52.57]But how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way [01:56.02]It's for you that I pray with hope for a brighter day [01:58.02]And so I say, your deliverance is coming [02:00.32] [02:00.88]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night [02:06.13]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom [02:11.44]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight [02:16.93]Don't stop believing, my girl America [02:21.62] [02:22.62]Faith like a child from your first birth [02:24.94]You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt [02:27.45]And I see each tear and every scar [02:30.53]The hands that have held you where you are [02:32.90]And I can see we've strayed so far [02:35.51]A king born under that morning star [02:38.16]As a crown of thorns was placed to earase [02:40.96]Each tear that's touched your face [02:43.38]And his palms and sides were pierced with spears [02:46.12]He hung in love just to draw you near [02:48.92]My girl, out of this whole world [02:51.62]Can't you see this is where we started? [02:53.90] [02:54.52]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night [02:59.87]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom [03:04.94]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight [03:10.53]Don't stop believing, my girl America [03:15.93]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night [03:20.99]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom [03:26.34]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight [03:31.74]Don't stop believing, my girl America [03:36.43] [03:50.80]----End----