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American Boy

from Empire Building by Bill White

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from the album Tales from the Forsaken Art House

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I never learned how to shoot a gun
Never in my life have I hit a home run
I never learned to drive a car
Never fell in love at the end of a bar
These are not the things that bring me joy
Never wanted to be an American Boy

I was born under ancestral sin
Spawn of the killers of the Indians
All my life Ive heard nothing but lies
About the blue and the gray and the red and the white
I want to raise my voice in a song of joy
And forget about the myth of the American boy



I knew a kid whose father
Walked on the moon
Looked back at the Earth
Like a dish at a spoon
When that kid grew up
He rode with the Klan
Set fire to a church
And murdered a man

Lets forget about the myth of the American Boy
And find something better find something joyful
Sing something sweeter Sing Something true
About what you think of me and what I think of you

A handful of dust from a burned out star
Fell into the mud and here we are
Moving like flashes of light in a picture show
And what we really are I don’t think anybody knows

Never wanted to be an American Boy
Playing with the world like it was my little toy
Lets find something to share that we all can enjoy
And forget about the myth of the American Boy

Forget about the myth of the American boy
I never wanted to be an American Boy

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from Empire Building, released September 9, 2018

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