Mat Kearney - My Girl America Lyrics

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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 shes 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 

[chorus]
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 whats 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 
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' 

[chorus]

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 

[chorus 2x] 

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 

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lyrics submitted on 13-03-2005
lyrics corrected by Shauna on 19-03-2007