America (never Been)

	  		Intro A 

Verse 1:

A 
You can drive across the whole thing 
        F#m                A 
In four days if you really wanted 
G                    F#m 
Leaving custom thank you notes 
           A               D 
In all the houses you ever haunted 
A 
In this whole solar system 
F#m                        G 
We've only met one type of life 
A 
It's the living kind of life 
Bm                      D 
And it's not one I recognize 

 

A    G   F#m  D 
America, America 
A    G   Bm   D 
America, America 
A    G   F#m  D 
America, America 
A    G   E    D 
America, America 

Verse 2:
 

A 
I said "excuse me" to the ocean 
          A 
Because I thought I had got in its way 
   F#m 
At first I didn't think it heard me 
    A 
But then I saw it wave 
A 
You can spend every living moment thinking 
        A 
How can I get out alive? 
F#m 
But is it really then, can you really call it 
A 
Hey man, just shut up and drive 
  A 
I thought we'd be on the road all night 
          A 
When that ice storm hit in Texas 
    F#m 
And when we pulled into the gas station 
       G 
It was like a frozen oasis 
A 
Oh, sweet mama 
          A 
Does that neon sign shine for me? 
           Bm 
Is there a street where my name glows 
                D 
All through the night? 

 

         A                G 
And I've never read (America) 
        F#m              D 
No I've never been (America) 
       A                G 
I just never went (America) 
       Bm               D 
I have never seen (America) 
         A                 G 
And I've never wrote (America) 
        F#m              D 
No I've never been (America) 
       A                 G 
I just never spoke (America) 
       E               D 
I just wanna see (America) 

Verse 3:

       A 
All my fantasies are faking orgasms 
             A 
They're only in it for the money I made up for them 
           F#m 
I trade in ideas, opinion and artistry 
       A 
And my face is on every dollar 
        A 
This is heaven but heaven is here 
        A 
This is heaven but heaven is hard 
             Bm 
Because your lover is listening to music you don't know 
           D 
And you're tangled up in the headphone wires 
         A 
You know our problems, they don't end 
     A 
Just because we get boy/girlfriends 
   F#m 
Is this your salvation plan? 
   G 
Is this your salvation plan? 
    A 
Oh, there's only one type of love 
         A 
It's the loving kind of love 
                Bm 
But when you're mad at me it's the end of times 
        D 
And I'm mad at you all the other times 



       A                    G 
Have I ever really (Been in love) 
             F#m                   D 
I guess I've never really (Been in love) 
       A                     G 
Have I ever really (Been in love) 
           Bm                       D 
Not in the way I'm thinking(Been in love) 
       A                    G 
Have I ever really (Been in love) 
             F#m                   D 
I guess I've never really (Been in love) 
           A                    G 
Oh, have I ever really (Been in love) 
           E                     D 
No,no I've never really (Been in love) 

Bridge:

E 
Real life's a mess 
       A 
But at least you're not paying rent 
            D 
You've been making it, maybe even breaking even 
    Bm           G 
You oughta be content 
E 
It doesn't make sense 
       A 
You're still sitting on the fence 
         G 
When the yard is yours 
           F#m 
And it was money well spent 



         A                G 
And I've never read (America) 
        F#m              D 
No I've never been (America) 
       A                G 
I just never went (America) 
       Bm               D 
I have never seen (America) 
A 
America (America) 
A 
America (America) 
A 
Democracy (America) 
A 
Biographies (America) 
A                   G 
Civil rights! (America), basically 
F#m                  D 
Bright lights! (America) living in the city 
A                  G 
Second prize (America) in a beauty pageant 
F#m                D 
200 dollars, (America) this is life