America
"Let us be lovers,
We'll marry our fortunes together.
I've got some real estate here in my bag."
So we bought a pack of cigarettes,
And Mrs. Wagner's pies,
And walked off
To look for America.
"Kathy," I said,
As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh,
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now.
It took me four days
To hitchhike from Saginaw.
I've come to look for America."
Laughing on the bus,
Playing games with the faces,
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy.
I said, "Be careful,
His bowtie is really a camera."
"Toss me a cigarette,
I think there's one in my raincoat."
"We smoked the last one an hour ago."
So I looked at the scenery,
She read her magazine;
And the moon rose over an open field.
"Kathy, I'm lost," I said,
Though I knew she was sleeping.
"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why."
Counting the cars
On the New Jersey Turnpike.
They've all come
To look for America,
All come to look for America,
All come to look for America.
Comentarios: “La verdad es que no sé qué es lo
que tenía en mente cuando escribí esta canción. Creo que es muy de 1968, algo
así como una generación de chicos que acaban de empezar a recorrer el pais,
pero cuando la escucho no me evoca nada....No estoy muy seguro de donde saqué
las metáforas del viaje en autobús. La chica es Kathy, mi novia de Inglaterra.
Era mi chica modelo, pero nunca hicimos un viaje como éste. Ninguno de los
hechos ocurrieron en mi vida. ...esta es una canción que no tiene raices físicas...” son algunas de las reflexiones de Simon sobre este tema. |
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