American Requiem
[00:00.55] Nothin' really is
[00:05.59] For things to stay the same, they have to change again
[00:11.45] Hello, my old friend
[00:16.75] You change your name but not the ways you play pretend
[00:23.13] American Requiem
[00:28.44] Them big ideas (yeah) are buried here (yeah)
[00:34.55] Amen
[00:51.02] It's a lot of talkin' goin' on
[00:56.60] While I sing my song
[01:01.11] Can you hear me?
[01:05.89] I said, "Do you hear me?"
[01:11.20] Looka there, looka there, now
[01:13.86] Looka there, looka there
[01:16.52] Looka-looka, looka there, looka there
[01:18.64] Looka-looka, looka there, looka there
[01:21.56] Looka-looka, looka there, looka there (oh, yeah)
[01:24.49] Looka-looka, looka there, looka there
[01:27.15] It's a lot of chatter in here
[01:31.92] But let me make myself clear (oh)
[01:37.23] Can you hear me? (Huh)
[01:41.75] Or, do you fear me? (Ah)
[01:46.53] Can we stand for something?
[01:49.72] Now is the time to face the wind (ow)
[01:56.36] Covered in peace and love, y'all
[01:59.81] Oh, a lot of takin' up space
[02:07.79] Salty tears beyond my gaze
[02:12.84] Can you stand me?
[02:16.29] (Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me?) Ooh-ah
[02:19.20] Can we stand? (Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand me?)
[02:21.59] Can you stand with me? (Can you stand me? Can you stand by me?)
[02:23.45] Can we stand for something?
[02:25.32] Now is the time to face the wind
[02:30.37] Now ain't the time to pretend
[02:35.41] Now is the time to let love in
[02:39.39] Thinking to myself (to myself)
[02:40.72] Oh, it's a lot of talkin' goin' on, uh
[02:48.42] While I sing my song, yeah
[02:53.47] Do you hear me when I say?
[02:55.33] Do you hear me when I say?
[02:58.52] Looka there, looka there
[03:00.39] Looka, look
[03:01.72] Looka-looka-looka-looka-looka-looka
[03:03.58] Looka there, looka there
[03:05.70] L-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-looka there
[03:08.11] Oh, looka there, looka there
[03:12.09] Looka there, looka there
[03:14.47] (Can you stand me? Can you stand me?) La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
[03:17.40] (Can you stand me? Can you stand me? Can you stand by me?)
[03:19.53] Can we stand for something? (Yeah)
[03:21.39] Now is the time to face the wind
[03:25.64] (Now is the time to face the wind)
[03:26.70] Now ain't the time to pretend
[03:32.30] Now is the time to let love in (to let love in)
[03:37.08] Together, can we stand?
[03:39.47] Looka there, liquor in my hand
[03:42.13] The grandbaby of a moonshine man
[03:44.78] Gadsden, Alabama
[03:46.39] Got folk down Gavelston, rooted in Louisiana
[03:49.83] They used to say I spoke too country
[03:51.96] Then the rejection came, said I wasn't country 'nough
[03:54.61] Said I wouldn't saddle up, but
[03:59.13] If that ain't country, tell me, what is?
[04:05.23] Plant my bare feet on solid ground for years
[04:09.22] They don't, don't know how hard I had to fight for this
[04:16.15] When I sing my song
[04:36.06] Goodbye to what has been
[04:40.85] Pretty house that we never settled in
[04:47.22] A funeral for fair-weather friends
[04:52.80] I am the one to cleanse me of my father's sins
[04:58.38] American Requiem
[05:04.75] Them big ideas (yeah) are buried here (yeah)
[05:10.34] Amen
