Young In America

Well, we were young and always looking up And passing out up in the parking lot Those were the nights but now they've come and gone, my dear My dear It's 2 AM before the afterglow And all those nights just seem so long ago Banging my hands up on the stereo Nowhere, nowhere My heart plays the songs of my lost years My scars are a church for my own fears My body's a wreck but I don't care I swear So say a prayer, gotta lift me up Goddamn when you're young in America I don't want to let you down, luck will come around We can get a ticket out somehow That's all I am, that's all I ever was So say a prayer, gotta lift me up Goddamn, Goddamn, Goddamn We were young, full of bad decisions And MTV was on your television And all we had was a bland ambition Again, again You're waiting tables up in Emerald Heights I play the Steamboat every Friday night Two kids from nothing, guess we did alright My dear, my dear My heart plays the songs of my lost years My scars are a church for my own fears My body's a wreck but I don't care I swear So say a prayer, gotta lift me up Goddamn when you're young in America I don't want to let you down, luck will come around We can get a ticket out somehow That's all I am, that's all I ever was So say a prayer, gotta lift me up Goddamn, Goddamn, Goddamn When I still hear you singing on the old tape deck tonight And I don't think I'll be sleeping 'cause I just can't close my eyes But I'll close my eyes Say a prayer, gotta lift me up Goddamn when you're young in America I don't want to let you down, luck will come around We can get a ticket out somehow That's all I am, that's all I ever was So say a prayer, gotta lift me up Goddamn, Goddamn, Goddamn