[00:26.74]They pulled in just behind the bridge
[00:29.24]He lays her down, he frowns
[00:32.48]Gee my life's a funny thing
[00:34.73]Am I still too young?
[00:38.24]He kissed her then and there
[00:40.24]She took his ring, took his babies
[00:43.74]It took him minutes, took her nowhere
[00:46.74]Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything
[01:28.92][00:49.73](All night)
[01:32.41][00:52.97]She wants the young American
[01:35.42][00:55.74](Young American, young American)
[01:38.41][00:58.74](She wants the young American)
[01:40.41][01:00.74](All right)
[01:44.15][01:04.24]She wants the young American
[01:06.58]Scanning life through the picture window,
[01:08.85]She finds the slinky vagabond
[01:11.84]He coughs as he passes up her red Mustang, but
[01:15.09]Heaven forbid, she take anything
[01:18.09]But the freak, and his type, all for nothing,
[01:20.85]misses a step and cuts his hand. But
[01:23.78]showing nothing, he swoops like a song
[01:25.77]She cries Where have all Papas' heroes gone
[01:46.80]All the way from Washington
[01:48.93]Her bread winner begs off the bathroom floor
[01:51.44]We live for just these twenty years
[01:54.18]Do we have to die for the fifty more?
[01:57.81]All night
[02:01.04]He wants the young American
[02:04.04](Young American, young American)
[02:05.55]So young
[02:06.81](He wants the young American)
[02:09.22](All right)
[02:10.96]All right
[02:12.46]He wants the young American
[02:26.72]Do you remember your President Nixon?
[02:32.22]Do you remember the bills you have to pay
[02:36.46]Or even yesterday?
[02:52.26]Have you have been an un-American?
[02:54.76]Just you and your idol singing falsetto
[02:57.76]'bout leather, leather everywhere, and
[03:00.51]not a myth left from the ghetto
[03:03.02]Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
[03:06.26]in case, just in case of depression?
[03:09.26]Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors,
[03:11.75]blushing at all the afro-Sheila's
[03:14.60]Ain't that close to love?
[03:17.11]Well, ain't that poster love?
[03:20.10]Well, it ain't that Barbie doll,
[03:22.84]her heart's been broken just like you have
[03:25.91]All night
[03:30.17]You want the young American
[03:32.44]Young American, young American, you want the young American
[03:36.60]All right
[03:40.91]You want the young American
[03:43.14]You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
[03:45.65]A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady got a Chrysler
[03:48.39]Black's got respect and White's got his soul train
[03:51.38]Mama's got cramps and look at your hands ache
[03:54.39](I heard the news today, oh boy)
[03:57.14]I got a suite and you got defeat
[03:59.38]Ain't there a man you can say no more?
[04:02.41]And, ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?
[04:05.67]And, ain't there a child I can hold without judging?
[04:08.41]Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?
[04:11.41]Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
[04:13.93]Ain't there one damn song that can make me
[04:17.43]Break down and cry?
[04:22.33]All night
[04:25.58]I want the young American
[04:28.57](Young American, young American)
[04:30.00]Young American
[04:31.24](I want the young American)
[04:33.77](All right)
[04:37.01]I want the young American, young American
[04:39.76](Young American, young American)
[04:41.50]I want you
[04:42.50](I want the young American)
[04:44.01]I want you want
[04:45.24](All right)
[04:45.74]You want I, I want you, you want I, I want you...