Big American Problem Lyrics - Stan Ridgway

Chorus: 

I've got a big american problem 

Somethin' that I cannot solve by myself 

I've got a big american problem 

Somethin' that I need some help from the shelf 

Way down in somalia 

Where the starving children play 

Where our soldiers are sittin' around 

Wonderin' just what to do with the day 

There are many people in the hills 

And the hills have eyes 

There is someone that waits for me 

Like a spider waits for a fly 

Chorus: 

I've got a big american problem 

Somethin' that I cannot solve by myself 

I've got a big american problem 

Somethin' that I better take off the shelf 

In sarajevo, there's lots of people standin' 

Standin' there in the street, waitin' for you 

Someone's comin' down to give them the answers 

« and if they'd know just what they don't want to do » 

Chorus: 

I've got a big american problem 

Somethin' that I cannot solve by myself 

I've got a big american problem 

« we'd better take that book from the shelf » 

Have you got a big american problem too? 

Somethin' that you cannot solve by yourself 

Have you got a big american problem too? 

Somethin' that you cannot solve by yourself? 

I've got a big american problem (x4) 

A problem! problem! problem! a problem! a problem!