Girl America

[00:10.18] My girl America is just a youth in this world
[00:14.10] Her smile is more precious than the sparkle of pearls
[00:17.28] And though her age reads she's just a young girl
[00:19.87] Age behind her eyes show the pain that she's swirled
[00:22.52] Through the hand that's been dealt though it's quiet as kept
[00:25.26] The weight was all felt last night when she slept
[00:27.83] And as she crept into the dreams of the things of her past
[00:30.05] Seems to have grown so fast, way beyond her own class
[00:32.69] Though they're right there with her, hers brothers and her sisters
[00:35.66] A natural born leader even when her peers diss her
[00:38.27] My girl, she's at a crossroads, people praying for her
[00:40.92] Some are preying on her magazine ads, sex, drama, smoking marijuana
[00:44.49] Longing for a father to call her 'daughter'
[00:46.21] She's part of a generation longing for reconciliation
[00:49.19] And this future that they're facing and this poison that they're tasting
[00:52.25] My girl, I know this love that you're chasing
[00:55.32] My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night
[01:00.64] I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom
[01:05.99] My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight
[01:11.34] Don't stop believing, my girl America
[01:15.91] Boys with hungry eyes have been beating her door
[01:18.10] Telling her that's what's she's for, trying to rob her at her core
[01:20.66] Then leave calling her a whore, but still she knows there's more
[01:23.58] I know she knows there's more because there's a voice she can't ignore
[01:26.22] Cause it was founded in the foundations, from the day of her creation
[01:29.52] In God we trust engraved in the treasures of her nation
[01:32.46] And the void the boys can't fill
[01:33.98] With the tippin' of the bottle or the poppin' of the pill
[01:36.92] But still most of her friends don't care as they glare
[01:39.60] Ready to drown the funnel as they frown down the tunnel
[01:42.19] They stumble and they tumble, breaking down into rubble
[01:44.63] My girl America, stop, can't you see
[01:47.39] It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be
[01:50.93] But how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way
[01:53.87] It's for you that I pray with hope for a brighter day
[01:56.27] So I say, your deliverance is comin'
[01:59.46] My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night
[02:04.65] I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom
[02:09.88] My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight
[02:15.36] Don't stop believing, my girl America
[02:20.28] Faith like a child from your first birth
[02:22.88] You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt
[02:25.44] And I see each tear and every scar
[02:27.98] The hands that have held you where you are
[02:31.18] And I can see we've strayed so far
[02:33.71] A king born under that morning star
[02:36.56] As a crown of thorns was placed to erase
[02:39.14] Each tear that's touched your face
[02:41.79] His palms and sides were pierced with spears
[02:44.41] He hung in love just to draw you near
[02:47.09] My girl, out of this whole world
[02:50.33] Can't you see this is where we started
[02:52.85] My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night
[02:57.91] I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom
[03:03.16] My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight
[03:08.69] Don't stop believing, my girl America
[03:13.91] My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night
[03:19.15] I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom
[03:24.64] My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight
[03:29.90] Don't stop believing, my girl America
[03:35.27] His palms and sides were pierced with spears
[03:37.84] He hung in love just to draw you near
[03:40.34] My girl, out of this whole world
[03:43.64] Can't you see this is where we started
[03:47.33] Where we started, where we started, my girl America