Goodbye, America Lyrics

Lemme give it one last try now

Find out what it means

Make a scene

And when I've got no place to run now

I'm gonna crawl back on my knees

To this landfill of dreams

You see, I've run away and I've run that race

I've felt the rain on my face

I'm not ridin' for free

But if I must remain on this broken plain

On this pedestal of marketing

Don't come lookin' for me

Goodbye, America

I was your favorite son

The only one you loved

People love people

Who look and talk like them

The way it's always been

Nothin' is sacred

'Cause no one has the time

In America

The only time that I'm within you

Is when you're within my heart

Throwin' that dart

Caressing my vanity

You paint me as a Kennedy

But just with my head on straight

And in the cold remains of an empty state

The silos fill the marble plates

Still, my ashes will drift through these fields

And I'll read about a century

Through an alternate reality

That was tailor-made for me

'Cause it was tailor-made for me

Goodbye, America

I was your favorite son

The only one you loved

I guess people love people

Who look and talk like them

The way it's always been

If I never knew you

I might've just been free

I wouldn't have to keep

Repeating the last prayer

Of someone sent to die

For America

I was your favorite son

The only one you loved

Goodbye, America

I was your favorite son

The only one you loved

Hello, America

I am your favorite son

With nowhere else to run