Les Cowboys Fringants - L'Amerique Pleure - English - America Cries

English version of Quebecois folk song "L'Amerique Pleure", sung by Jaclyn Lizzi

Well it’s just another day
Rise with the sun, don't be late
I rub the sleep out off my face
Not like I get much anyway

Years of smoking cigarettes
Can’t be undone by vitamins
Down ‘em with coffee and regret
‘Fore I gotta head out again

Take the Florida Turnpike
Then gotta head for Montmagny
It’s nothing much a trucker’s life
But you do see the country

And it makes you realize
Behind the stunning countryside
There’s so much inequality
You see the saddest sort of eyes

Asking myself all the time
What’s the reason where’s the rhyme
Living in hypocrisy
And still believe in life

[Refrain]
And at night when I come home
After driving all alone
I feel I maybe should have known
America just bursts with pride
But in my rearview cries

Is this the fruit of our success
The evidence our excess
I haul along these lonely roads
Seran-wrapped frozen overflow

The rotten fruit of privilege
In the back of every fridge
Still we’re never satisfied
Even while our own future dies

Asking myself all the time
What’s the reason, where’s the rhyme
And what will our children do?
When nothin’s left but ruin

[Ref]

Well Interstate 95
Snuffed out yet another life
Impatient cars just crawling by
A requires in flashing lights

Honking their way through the mess
The rubberneckers strain to see
But when did fatal accidents
Become reality TV

Asking myself all the time
What’s the reason where’s the rhyme
No respect far’s you can see
The world has gone crazy

[Ref]

Another truck stop on the route
A meal that maybe once was food
Well, if you’re gen’rous, call it soup
Just close your eyes and chew well

The franchise killed Mom and Pop
Made with love in some sweatshop
Can’t even turn on the TV
Without another mass shooting

Asking myself all the time
What’s the reason where’s the rhyme
Are we just ‘long for the ride
This lonely loveless life

[Ref]

Well, it gets to me sometimes
'Specially in my rig at night
What the hell I’m doing here
This godforsaken frontier

All the milestones that I missed
With Mimi and my baby girls
Can’t shake this fucked-up feeling
That I’m just a stranger in their world

Asking myself all the time
What’s the reason, where’s the rhyme
Always bein’ far from home
Another workin’ drone

And at night I drive alone
I’m always so far from home
I think of Mimi’s loving eyes
And my heart just bursts with pride
But on the inside, dies