Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
[Verse 1]
We were born in America
Twenty years in a torn up America
And it's not so terrible in America
[Verse 2]
And if you go to the movies
Don’t believe what they show at the movies
The whole world's in 3D, it's incredible
[Bridge]
If you pay me the ransom
I will write you a national anthem
Against the wall with your hands up
Don’t try anything funny
[Verse 3]
Mexican on your dad's side
Every town has a good and a bad side
And you were born on the sad side of America
[Verse 4]
And I don't have to defend it
I don't give a shit what Ben Franklin intended
What some slave owner men said
Well, they're all dead
[Verse 5]
But there's too many rock songs
Put it all in a two minute pop song
A really mean it a lot song for America
[Verse 6]
I'm alone in America
I wanna go back home in America
Clean me out like an enema
Miss America
[Verse 7]
We were born for America
For the highways and court of America
How you're not even dead yet
When they bury ya
In America was written by Ezra Furman.
In America was produced by Ezra Furman.
Ezra Furman released In America on Fri Aug 30 2019.
[“In America”] was inspired most of all by the band the So So Glos, who we toured with in 2014. I recommend their album Blowout in particular. I was trying to write about America with some of their distinctive tone. It turned out to not sound like them much at all. But also – yes it’s sort of my lit...