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Livin' In the USA

from What Cares I for Praise? by Trevor Felix

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Livin’ In the USA

My darlin’ child, why do you frown?
Why do you frown?
I frown because the sun’s goin’ down.
Will the sun goin’ down
Rise again?

Well, I’m just an average common kid
Probably did all the things you did
Now, I mind my time tryna live
What to take what to give tryn handle my biz
Standin’ on Philly’s blocks I watch
All the cars in the traffic tryin’ not to crash it
But still, who can go the fastest?
And all the people in bustle goin’ on their hustle
We’re all on our own but none alone
Each from each but still within arm’s reach
In this life I gotta stay upright
Good luck, good day, I’ll go on my way

Chor: Oh we oh we oh, hey, hey
Oh we oh we oh, hey, hey
Oh we oh we oh, hey, hey
Livin’ in the USA

It’s all a baseball game we play
Just a thin line of dust that’s it that splits
Fair from foul, in from out
And us all are either bat or ball
I see the single mom stressin’, old men givin’ lessons,
Ladies in dresses men try impressin’
The one in a bind, the ones on a grind sayin’,
“It’s about time that I got mine.”
I see the ones with ambition hopin’ wishin’
Payin’ tuition sayin’, “I gotta finish!”
The immigrant, the resident, the vagrant,
And even you Mr. President

Chorus

Black and white and everything in between
But our wants and desires are all colored green
Some of what I see makes me hope
And some of what I see makes me mope
Even if I don’t respect it I accept it
But when I don’t get it I start to question,
“Should I keep to myself and leave all the rest
To everyone else? Or should I
Brave the world as such, walk without a crutch,
With little do much, be real to the touch,
And add to the abundance even if you don’t want it,
Give it, 1st amendment live it?”

Chorus

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from What Cares I for Praise?, released June 1, 2014

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