"America"
Let us be lovers, We'll marry our fortunes together. I've got some real estate Here in my bag. So we bought a pack of cigarettes, And Mrs. Wagner's pies, And walked off To look for America. "Kathy", I said, As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh, Michigan seems like a dream to me now. It took me four days To hitch-hike from Saginaw. "I've come to look for America." Laughing on the bus, Playing games with the faces, She said the man in the gabardine suit Was a spy. I said, "Be careful, His bow tie is really a camera." "Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat." We smoked the last one An hour ago. So I looked at the scenery, She read her magazine; And the moon rose over an open field. "Kathy, I'm lost", I said, Though I know she was sleeping. "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why." Counting the cars On the New Jersey Turnpike The've all come To look for America, All come to look for America, All come to look for America. |
This song by Simon and Garfunkel is a story about a guy and a girl going t look for america. They are on a trip to try to discover the american dream. Together they are traveling across america to try to find their american dream. They hitch-hike for four days to look for their american dream. They are trying to figure out what they're suppose to do, but for know they know that what their suppose to do is figure out what their american dream is. On their trip they joke to each other and laugh with each other, and make sure to have a fun time while they're searching for their dream. "As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh, Michigan seems like a dream to me now." These two lines show that, what they are doing is trying to find what they're dream is, and as of when they are boarding the bus in Pittsburgh he says that Michigan seems like a dream. Further down in the song, they are traveling along the New Jersey turnpike, and as he's watching the cars go by he realizes that all of the cars are there to look for America. "Counting the cars, On the New Jersey Turnpike, They've all come, To look for America," He realizes that all of the cars are there to look for America, just like him and to find their american dream.
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