Aaron Tinjum and the Tangents - American Road lyrics

[First Verse] Oh, well, I light a cigarette To choke on the smoke My cough laughs so loudly But I'm broke like a joke The man in the tie Keeps his dress pants clean But his wife doesn't know Of the women he has seen He says now "True love It rarely shows But you ain't never been on American Road" [Second Verse] Well, I keep on clappin' But I'm not quite sure what for I wipe and drag my feet Only to find dirt on the floor Susie plays a waitress Bottom wage at the bar She claims she's an actress And that dreams don't get you far She says,"Life, yeah It's pretty cold But you can finding meaning on American Road" [Third Verse] And I square dance down the street To the singing of a mime He's stuck in some French ice box And frozen for all time There's some hipsters hating hobos And beatniks blaming bums Until the NRA comes waltzing down Waving all my guns And Charlton Heston He says, "Hello! Welcome son to American Road!" [Instrumental] [Fourth Verse] And there's a presidential fool Preaching at the crowd But the congregation's deaf Because his ego's much too loud I walk a fine line And the gypsies love to dance I read the Bible And the abide to Kerouac They say, "The rhetoric, it's getting bold! But the truth lies on American Road!" [Fifth Verse] The smoke begins to rise As my cigarette subsides It's the changing of the guard And the rising of the tide It's some lazy revolution That'll probably never be They claim it's evolution Or the creation story "Yeah, whatever it is, it fits the mold! But I'll keep on riding this American Road!"