《Searching For America》歌词

[00:00:00] Searching For America - Janis Ian

[00:00:21] Where have you been that made you weep

[00:00:26] And left these stains upon your cheek

[00:00:32] What did you see while you were gone

[00:00:37] That haunts your eyes this sunny dawn

[00:00:42] They herded us like so much meat

[00:00:47] Up from the sewers to the street

[00:00:53] Where concrete canyons stretched their walls

[00:00:58] So high it made us want to crawl

[00:01:04] Past proverbs writ on subway cars

[00:01:09] And in-between the window bars

[00:01:14] We walked until the pavement bled

[00:01:20] And not a curse was left unsaid

[00:01:25] Into a place that knows no spring

[00:01:28] Where only steel and silver sing

[00:01:31] They made us dance until we dropped

[00:01:33] And the music of the jackhammers stopped

[00:01:42] I caught a cinder in my eye

[00:01:45] Searching for a patch of sky

[00:01:51] But the shadows drizzled down like in Pompeii

[00:01:55] That's how I spent my yesterday

[00:02:01] Searching for America

[00:02:06] In the rivets and the rust

[00:02:12] Searching for America

[00:02:18] Finding only dust

[00:02:24] What did you see that made you cry

[00:02:29] And left these trackmarks on your eye

[00:02:34] What did you find while you were there

[00:02:39] That sucks the light out of the morning air

[00:02:45] They gave us each a cropper's shack

[00:02:50] And land so hard it broke our back

[00:02:55] Then fed us 'til our bellies burst

[00:03:01] On promises that died at birth

[00:03:06] So I lay the baby out each dawn

[00:03:12] In-between the tender corn

[00:03:17] With sunrise for her bonnet

[00:03:22] And flies her only blanket

[00:03:28] We harvested until we bled

[00:03:30] 'Til every single root ran red

[00:03:33] And when the work was finally done

[00:03:36] They gave our names to immigration

[00:03:45] I did not know how bad it hurt

[00:03:48] Until I lay there eating dirt

[00:03:54] And the cold seeped in between my bones

[00:03:58] That's where I was when I left home

[00:04:04] Searching for America

[00:04:09] All her dreams and hopes

[00:04:15] Searching for America

[00:04:20] Finding only ghosts

[00:04:48] Who are these people you have seen

[00:04:53] To dream this dark and distant dream

[00:04:58] To tell the stories you have told

[00:05:03] To leave these bruises on your soul

[00:05:09] They are the flesh they are the bone

[00:05:14] They are the very cornerstone

[00:05:19] They leave their mansions and their shacks

[00:05:25] To hide here in-between the cracks

[00:05:30] Their hope is tattooed on my lips

[00:05:36] Bleeding from my fingertips

[00:05:40] They are crawling toward the promised land

[00:05:46] Hand over hand

[00:05:51] To walk until they run no more

[00:05:54] And wash up on some distant shore

[00:05:57] Where truth is not the enemy

[00:06:00] And whatever does not kill us sets us free

[00:06:08] Somewhere out there

[00:06:12] Are millions just like me

[00:06:19] Homesick for Eden

[00:06:22] Heartsick at the memory

[00:06:28] Searching for America

[00:06:33] In every stick and stone

[00:06:38] Searching for America

[00:06:44] Going home

[00:06:49] Searching for America

[00:06:55] Going home