Girl America Lyrics - Bullet - Mat Kearney

my girl america is just a youth is this world 

her smile is more precious than the sparkle of pearls 

and though her age reads she's just a young girl 

the age behind her eyes show the pain that she's swirled 

through the hand that's been dealt though it's quiet as kept 

the weight was all felt last night when she slept 

and as she crept into the dreams of the things of her past 

seems to have grown so fast, way beyond her own class 

though they're right there with her, her brothers and her sisters 

a natural born leader even when her peers dis her 

my girl, she's at a crossroads, people praying for her 

some are preying on her magazine ads, sex, drama 

smoking marijuana, longing for a father to call her, 'daughter' 

she's part of a generation longing for reconciliation 

and this future that they're facing and this poison that they're tasting 

my girl, i know this love that your chasing 

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my girl america's crying when she's lying on her bed at night 

i can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom 

my girl america's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight 

don't stop believing, my girl america 

boys with hungry eyes have been beating her door 

telling her that's what she's for, trying to rob at her core 

then leave calling her a whore, but still she knows there's more 

i know she knows there's more because there is a voice she can't ignore 

'cause it was founded in the foundations, from the day of her creation 

in God we trust engraved on the treasures of her nation 

and the void that the boys can't fill 

with the tipping of the bottle or the popping of the pill 

but still most of her friends don't care as they glare 

ready to drown down the funnel as they frown down the tunnel 

they stumble and the tumble breaking down into rubble 

my girl america, stop can't you see 

it's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be 

but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way 

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it's for you that i pray with hope for a brighter day 

and so i say, your deliverance is coming 

faith like a child from your first birth 

you left it in the dirt on your worst hurt 

and i see each tear and every scar 

the hands that have held you where you are 

and i can see we've strayed so far 

a king born under that morning star 

as a crown of thorns was placed to erase 

each tear that's touched your face 

and his palms and sides where pierced with spears 

he hung in love just to draw you near 

my girl, out of this whole world 

can't you see this is where we started