[00:00.00] 作曲 : Kearney, Marvin
[00:01.00] 作词 : KEARNEY, MATHEW/MARVIN, ROBERT
[00:12.10]My girl America is just a youth in this world
[00:14.72]Her smile is more precious than the sparkle of pearls
[00:17.22]And though her age reads she's just a young girl
[00:19.85]The age behind her eyes show the pain that she's swirled
[00:22.60]Through the hand that's been dealt though it's quiet as kept
[00:25.28]The weight that she felt last night when she slept
[00:27.85]And as she crept into the dreams of the things of her past
[00:30.66]Seems to have grown so fast, way beyond her own class
[00:33.07]Though they're right there with her, her brothers and her sisters
[00:35.88]A natural born leader even when her peers dis her
[00:38.57]My girl, she's at a crossroads, people praying for her
[00:41.25]Some are preying on her magazine ads, sex, drama
[00:43.69]Smoking marijuana, longer for a father her, to 'daughter'call
[00:46.73]She's part of a generation longing for reconciliation
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[00:49.42]And this future that they're facing and this poison that they're tasting
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[00:55.66]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night
[01:00.73]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom
[01:05.73]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight
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[01:13.87]Boys with hungry eyes have been beating her door
[01:18.59]Telling her that's what she's for, trying to rob at her core
[01:21.11]Then leave calling her a whore, but still she knows there's more
[01:23.68]I know she knows there's more because there is a voice she can't ignore
[01:26.62]'Cause it was founded in the foundations, from the day of her creation
[01:29.61]In God we trust engraved on the treasures of her nation
[01:32.49]And the void that the boys can't fill
[01:34.37]With the tipping of the bottle or the popping of the pill
[01:37.24]But still most of her friends don't care as they glare
[01:39.80]Ready to drown down the funnel as they frown down the tunnel
[01:42.36]They stumble and they tumble breaking down into rubble
[01:44.99]My girl America, stop can't you see
[01:47.42]It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be
[01:51.30]But how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way
[01:53.93]It's for you that I pray with hope for a brighter day
[01:56.49]I say, And so your deliverance is coming
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[02:09.87]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight
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[02:21.36]Faith like a child from your first birth
[02:23.50]You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt
[02:25.87]And I see each tear and every scar
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[02:28.82]The hands that have held you where you are
[02:31.38]And I can see we've strayed so far
[02:34.19]A king born under that morning star
[02:36.62]As a crown of thorns was placed to earase
[02:39.31]Each tear that's touched your face
[02:41.63]And his palms and sides were pierced with spears
[02:44.50]He hung in love just to draw you near
[02:47.25]My girl, out of this whole world
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[02:50.32]Can't you see this is where we started?
[02:52.94]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night
[02:58.00]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom
[03:03.07]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight
[03:08.95]My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night
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[03:19.52]I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom
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[03:24.90]My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight