Younger Than America Lyrics - Post Electric Blues - Idlewild

I'm sick of blowing all this smoke out 

Trying hard to feel doubt 

My book dropped to the ground 

At the part where the frontiers are all pulled down 

But they couldn't and they wouldn't have 

They couldn't and they shouldn't have 

But they could and they would have 

I inherited a nature 

In a language all worn out 

And wallowed by the windows 

At a rambling house at the edge of 

What I couldn't have 

I couldn't and I shouldn't have 

I could and I should have 

Someday you'll find a heaven 

Full of the guilt and freedom 

Of somewhere younger than America 

Bordering what we can hope to have 

Through the north woods 

East out of this slow motion town 

Through the willows and the aspens 

'Cause you've been weighed down 

Full of what 

You couldn't have 

You couldn't and you shouldn't have 

You could and you should have 

Someday you'll find a heaven 

Full of the guilt and freedom 

Of somewhere younger than America 

Bordering what we can hope 

And from the first edition 

Of East of Eden 

You find a version of America 

Born in what we can hope to have 

Someday you'll find a heaven 

Full of the guilt and freedom 

Of somewhere younger than America 

Bordering what we can hope