To Be American

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[Verse 1]
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Jane Austen what did you find?
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Did you think it unkind?
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When all the readers laughed and went back to suits and cash
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There's distance from your realization and the way you've been
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No one can be so cold and be without skin
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but it's been hundreds of years and there is no care
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The girls went to fix their hair
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Oh Jane cause

[Chorus]
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You don't know what it's like to be American
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You don't know what it's like to be American

[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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Jane Austen where have you gone?
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Is it anyone's fault that we escape into our own defense?
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And trash up all the conversations and the innocent brigades
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What does it even mean to be a lover's wage?
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And there's too much pain in this wine we made
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I'll grip the man with a cape
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Oh Jane cause

[Chorus]
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You don't know what it's like to be American
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You don't know what it's like to be American
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You don't know what it's like to be American
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You don't know what it's like to be American

[Ending]
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you don't know what it's like
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You don't know what it's like, no, ooooh
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You don't know what it's like to be American
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You don't know what it's like to be American