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THE POGUES lyrics : "USA"

(Shane MacGowan)
When I was young
I watched the cars

When I was older
I drank in bars
When I was young

I chewed the leaves
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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