Young Americans

Lyrics:

• They pulled in just behind the bridge
• He lays her down, he frowns
• "Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young?"
• He kissed her then and there
• She took his ring, took his babies
• It took him minutes, took her nowhere
• Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything, but


• [CHORUS (She)]
• All night
• She wants the young American
• Young American, young American, she wants the young American
• All right
• She wants the young American


• Scanning life through the picturewindow
• She finds the slinky vagabond
• He coughs as he passes her Ford
• Mustang, but
• Heaven forbid, she'll take anything
• But the freak, and his type, all for nothing
• He misses a step and cuts his hand, but
• Showing nothing, he swoops like a song
• She cries "Where have all Papa's heroes gone?"


• [CHORUS (She)]
• All the way from Washington
• Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor
• We live for just these twenty years
• Do we have to die for the fifty more?"


• [CHORUS (HE)]
• All night
• He wants the young American
• Young American, young American,
• he wants the young American
• All right
• He wants the young American


• Do you remember, your President Nixon?
• Do you remember, the bills you have to pay?
• Or even yesterday?
• Have been the un-American?
• Just you and your idol sing falsetto
• 'bout Leather, leather everywhere, and
• Not a myth left from the ghetto
• Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
• In case, just in case of depression?
• Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
• Blushing at all the afro-Sheeners
• Ain't that close to love?
• Well, ain't that poster love?
• Well, it ain't that Barbie doll
• Her hearts have been broken just like you
• [CHORUS (YOU)]
• All night
• You want the young American
• Young American, young American, you want the young American
• All right
• You want the young American


• You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
• A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady got a Chrysler
• Black's got respect, and white's got his soul train
• Mama's got cramps, and look at your hands ache
• (I heard the news today, oh boy)
• I got a suite and you got defeat
• Ain't there a man who can say no more?
• And, ain't there a woman I can
• sock on the jaw?
• And, ain't there a child I can hold without judging?
• Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?
• Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
• Ain't there one damn song that can make me
• break down and cry?


• [CHORUS (I) (repeat 3 times ad lib)]
• All night
• I want the young American
• Young American, young American, I want the young American
• All right … I want the young American