Falling in Love in America
By
Antsy McClain
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Her eyes were so warm and inviting,
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Like steamy diner windows on a cold winter
day
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The November air was so biting
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We could see our breath in my old Chevrolet
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Taking the longest way home I could find
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It was cold, but she loved me, and I had to stop time
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There’s nothing like falling in love in America
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Well, I’ve never yet been to Paris
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And I’ve never been one to like fancy
perfume
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But I’ve held hands with Jessica Harris
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And walked by the creek with the red bud in bloom
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Those writers in Cosmo, they don’t know a
thing
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And France ain’t got nothin' on Kentucky in
Spring
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And there’s nothing like falling in love in
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America
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America. Lift up your lonely and broken
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The hopeless still hopin’
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America Heal up the hearts that are achin
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Those yet to be taken
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America
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A dance at a High School gymnasium
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The kids line the walls like they’re facing a firing squad
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They’re waiting for transfiguration
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Or some kind of sign from a merciful God
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If I thought that they’d listen (and they haven’t, so far)
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I’d tell them how beautiful and bright they all are
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And there’s nothing like falling in love in
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America
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I know it all comes down to perspective
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And there’s so many beautiful things we can’t see
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But our vision just needs resurrected
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We take so much for granted when so much comes free
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And I know it may seem like it’s all upside down
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But if we ever needed a love song, it’s now
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And there’s nothing like falling in love in
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America
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(Chorus)
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America. Lift up your lonely and broken
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The hopeless still hopin’
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America Heal up the hearts that are achin
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Those yet to be taken
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There’s nothing like falling in love
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There’s nothing like falling in love
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There’s nothing like falling in love
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In America
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