America (Never Been)

[Intro] A

[Primera Parte]

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You can drive across the whole thing
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In four days if you really wanted
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Leaving custom thank you notes
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In all the houses you ever haunted
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In this whole solar system
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We've only met one type of life
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It's the living kind of life
Bm                      D
And it's not one I recognize

[Estribillo]

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America, America
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America, America
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America, America
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America, America

[Segunda Parte]

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I said "excuse me" to the ocean
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Because I thought I had got in its way
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At first I didn't think it heard me
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But then I saw it wave
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You can spend every living moment thinking
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How can I get out alive?
F#m
But is it really then, can you really call it
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Hey man, just shut up and drive
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I thought we'd be on the road all night
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When that ice storm hit in Texas
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And when we pulled into the gas station
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It was like a frozen oasis
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Oh, sweet mama
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Does that neon sign shine for me?
           Bm
Is there a street where my name glows
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All through the night?

[Estribillo]

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And I've never read (America)
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No I've never been (America)
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I just never went (America)
       Bm               D
I have never seen (America)
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And I've never wrote (America)
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No I've never been (America)
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I just never spoke (America)
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I just wanna see (America)

[Tercera Parte]

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All my fantasies are faking orgasms
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They're only in it for the money I made up for them
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I trade in ideas, opinion and artistry
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And my face is on every dollar
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This is heaven but heaven is here
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This is heaven but heaven is hard
             Bm
Because your lover is listening to music you don't know
           D
And you're tangled up in the headphone wires
         A
You know our problems, they don't end
     A
Just because we get boy/girlfriends
   F#m
Is this your salvation plan?
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Is this your salvation plan?
    A
Oh, there's only one type of love
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It's the loving kind of love
                Bm
But when you're mad at me it's the end of times
        D
And I'm mad at you all the other times

[Estribillo]

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Have I ever really (Been in love)
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I guess I've never really (Been in love)
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Have I ever really (Been in love)
           Bm                       D
Not in the way I'm thinking(Been in love)
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Have I ever really (Been in love)
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I guess I've never really (Been in love)
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Oh, have I ever really (Been in love)
           E                     D
No,no I've never really (Been in love)

[Puente]

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Real life's a mess
       A
But at least you're not paying rent
            D
You've been making it, maybe even breaking even
    Bm           G
You oughta be content
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It doesn't make sense
       A
You're still sitting on the fence
         G
When the yard is yours
           F#m
And it was money well spent

[Estribillo]

         A                G
And I've never read (America)
        F#m              D
No I've never been (America)
       A                G
I just never went (America)
       Bm               D
I have never seen (America)
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America (America)
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America (America)
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Democracy (America)
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Biographies (America)
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Civil rights! (America), basically
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Bright lights! (America) living in the city
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Second prize (America) in a beauty pageant
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200 dollars, (America) this is life