Pogues, The - USA Lyrics
When I was young
I watched the cars
When I was older
I drank in bars
When I was young
When I was older
I drank with thieves
I found a love
She gave me dreams
She left me drunk
In New Orleans
So cold and lonely
So all alone
I wished my heart
Was made of stone
I took the cold bright needle
I used it as a sword
My eyes have seen the glory of
The coming of the Lord
I burned across the delta
I swam across the ford
My eyes have seen the glory of
The coming of the Lord
When I was a young man
Standing on this road
My empty belly
An aching hole
An old man said to me
"Kid don't you know
That it's the same
Wherever you go"
I gambled in two graveyards
I won against the odds
With the smiling saints
And the silent saviours
With the maggots and the gods
I cursed the things they showed me
I could never see again
And the howling of the wind at night
I wrote upon the rain
I found the thing
For which I prayed
And came back home
To the USA
With a heart of stone
And now I know
That it's the same
Wherever you go
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Pogues, The USA Comments
What a track....another MacGowan masterpiece.
Wow Shane, you are definitely crazy man.
This is I think the best song written about USA/the ethos and narrative of the american spirit. One of the pogues most underrated tunes!
Some Dr John at the end for those who know.
Eh. He's just trying to sound like Shane McGowan and coming across as an inferior version.
AWESOME FOR SURE.
its a blues song really with some psychadelia mixed in. just like that woman's got me drinking is a hundred mph trainwreck of a blues song. no wonder his poems are perfect songs
Love this track.
this fkn guy.
hell yeah they did!
An Irish by way of London band has written one of the best American songs ever
that's because there a bunch of drifters only way to be!!
The Corrs?
Yes we can. All together, now! <3
I'm pretty sure we can though........
Yes come! Let's all have sex with it!
I already have. Now I need to get treated for burns on my crotch. :(
(Se quiserdes também o escrevo em galego-português)
Éire, even Six Counties, is not UK!
Galicia is not sPAIN!
Slán / Saúde
Nuair a bhí mé óg
Bhreathnaigh mé ar na gluaisteáin
Nuair a bhí mé níos sine
Ól mé i barraí ...
Beannachtaí ó Galiza
i will never merely say "I love this song" again
this music will always sound fresh
Well we can't all have sex with it! Dibs.
Good stuff!
this song is epic!!
Dude the only song that I've never really gotten the hang of is bottle of smoke
beamerball666 https://youtu.be/UNXtgPBF_gw
I love that song, I WILL find a way to have sex with it
A classic one.
get in there the goss man