American Heart

It beats like a drum down in New Orleans

Sings like a Motown melody

It dreams like California

Bigger than a Texas sky

It bleeds, it scorns, but it shines when times get hard

You can’t break an American heart,


She’s up before the sun, on the run

Another dollar another day another cup of coffee

Thank you Lord

For giving me one more

She still leans on her dreams but it seems

Sometimes she’s the only one who still believes that life is hard

So she takes it on with an American heart