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American Me

from Welcome Home by Red Collar

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The first words I ever learned were Mommy Daddy then Hungry
I had the poor dumb luck to be the son of someone unlucky poor and dumb
But I knew I was loved yet from a land that didn’t give a damn
Hungry Hands calloused feet I then learned how to say Please

And Daddy said Enough A Father’s sins can’t eclipse his love
Somewhere son there is opportunity
Here I don’t got no name and I got no crown
And it holds me back and it holds me down

American Me

Mommy held me tight as Daddy he crossed first
To where circumstances of birth won’t determine what you’re worth
It’s in your head and hands your heart and your will
He took my ear to his chest and said This is the sound of yearning fulfilled

Do you know what that means son? That red white and blue?
Past land laws and walls for all and not just a few
Here you got no name and you got no crown
But that won’t hold you back or hold you down

American Me

And then one night he woke me and told me to run
There were lights I heard screaming I never saw him again

American Me

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from Welcome Home, track released June 12, 2012

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