| | American Tune Lyrics Artist(Band):Paul Simon
Many's the time I've been mistaken And many times confused Yes, and I've often felt forsaken And certainly misused Oh, but I'm all right, I'm all right I'm just weary to my bones Still, you don't expect to be Bright and bon vivant So far away from home, so far away from home And I don't know a soul who's not been battered I don't have a friend who feels at ease I don't know a dream that's not been shattered or driven to its knees but it's all right, it's all right for we lived so well so long Still, when I think of the road we're traveling on I wonder what's gone wrong I can't help it, I wonder what's gone wrong And I dreamed I was dying I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly And looking back down at me Smiled reassuringly And I dreamed I was flying And high up above my eyes could clearly see The Statue of Liberty Sailing away to sea And I dreamed I was crying We come on the ship they call the Mayflower We come on the ship that sailed the moon We come in the age's most uncertain hours and sing an American tune Oh, and it's alright, it's all right, it's all right You can't be forever blessed Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day And I'm trying to get some rest That's all I'm trying to get some rest If you find some error in American Tune Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Review about American Tune To the guy whos European and saying stuff about Obama: | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/29/09 If your not american then dont hate on Obama. If you are American and are still hating on Obama, then read a book about all the good he has done in our country. Know the facts; I mean the real facts Obama's song??? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/2/09 Stan you got it right. Obama isn't the change he promised to be. and that should be VERY obvious by now... Bush bailed out bankers. Obama does it on an unequaled scale Bush started evil wars, but Obama isn't pulling out the troops. Under bush all sorts of unconstitutional laws were put in place after 9/11, obama isn't gonna sign some EOs and have them removed. He's not talking about abolishing the FED (witch is the root cause of the current economic predicament) Obama isn't talking about removing troops out of over 200 countries worldwide and breaking down the empire (wich will happen anyway soon, but in a not so nice way) I'm from Europe, but if I could vote i'd have gone for Ron Paul The only candidate who has any clue what's going on in your country and how to really solve the problems. maybe 2012 Ron, but I think it will be to late... Stan is not the man | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/18/09 poor stan. you couldn't have gotten it more wrong. The song questions the excesses of the United States--in the Bush era, this took the form of imperialistic war based upon deceit, torture, the murder of thousands and thousands of innocent civilians, plundering of the economy by the very rich, and so on. But the puppet Bush is just one chapter in a long story. Despite these concerns, the song is with a spirit of compassion, empathy, strength, trust and world-weary wisdom. Despite all that could be better, the singer reminds us, it's truly "all right". I'm not sure you're asking Why, stan, but if you do, the answer can be found in the verse that states, We come in the age's most uncertain hours and sing an American tune. That is, we make something good and beautiful in the midst of things that are neither. Simon's preview of now | Reviewer: Stan Moore | 4/11/09 I checked out a DVD of old Dick Cavett shows featuring rock icons and saw Paul Simon sing this song around 1974 on the show. The Arab Oil Embargo then was a preview of the Age of Peak Oil, where we find ourselves now. Unfortunately, Barack Obama chooses to bamboozle gullible Americans into thinking it will be all right and we can have further economic growth, even has he lays plans for a police state and transfers wealth from the working taxpayer to the elite. Barack Obama is at the very heart of the problem, and is a further catalyst for what has gone terribly wrong for America. Wars for Empire and engineering of wealth transfer to the elite are hallmarks of Obama and the Bushes and America's future is truly bleak. Stan Moore even more poignant | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/9/09 having just lost my job i take a strange comfort from this song. i have always loved it. i didn't know that obama used it but i find even now although i support our president with my last beath i can't help but wonder what's gone wrong. god bless and help our country. may i some day be able to say that tomorrow's going to be another working day and i'm trying to get some rest. More current than ever... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/15/09 Astonishing how current this song seems, 30 years after it was written, the truest measure of greatness. Literally brings tears to my eyes (what ninny I've become...). I cannot hope to match the eloquence and insight of many of the existing comments on this page, but I am compelled to ramble-on just the same. I*ve always liked this song, but I had more or less forgotten about it until recently, when it bubbled-up, piecemeal from my sub-conscious (I assume). Written as it was in the aftermath of Vietnam and the dawn of a new era of uncertainty over the Faustian bargain we American's had struck with global ambition and petro-politics, it's astonishing, and disquieting, to consider how well these lyrucs describe our current condition. After three decades of jingoistic self-indulgance, it seems we have arrived at the same dilemmas, only this time with fewer material resources to address them, but with the hope that we may yet triumph, if we can reach just that much deeper into our briny moat of contradictory impulses and conflicting narratives to once again transcend our present follies and be born again a little better than before, though still far from perfect. "The statue of liberty sailing away to sea." | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/30/09 This song isn't idealistic. It is serious. If you have hope, have hope in the people realizing there has been a real scam played on them, byt thanks to cheap labor we did live so well so long. In the days of this song, we got good wages. Not now...So to hope for a new camelot president. Think: did Congress just give away $7 trillion to the bankers Senators Obama and McCain both voted for it; the bankers told them to. Think: no actual schools or poor people are scheduled to get any of this stimulus. This is capitalism, and it is not getting kinder and gentler. This government, with Obama's direction is escalating the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. So the statue of liberty is still sailing away, despite that handsome brilliant charming president and his lovely family. The US Navy, speaking of sailing away to sea, has now got 1000 ships to patrol over the world. Looking for stuff like the linds of things we consumerded like gluttons as Simon wrote, "we lived so well so long," and he wrote this even before the big credit debt we got into! This is over, and actually, it's not all right any more. An American tear | Reviewer: Patrick | 1/14/09 It's hard to listen to this song, and these heartfelt reviews through the tears. Never so eloquently has despair and hope been wed. Removing the message for America, I find myself traveling this road and thank Paul for making me feel less alone. Paul Simon on 'Colbert Report' | Reviewer: Robert | 11/21/08 I just heard Paul Simon perform "An American Tune" on "The Colbert Report" earlier this week and I was so taken by it I played it back a second time. I was thinking how this song so well sums up our hope in what President-Elect Obama can do once he takes office. So it's interesting to read one of your other posters note that the song was used in an Obama ad. "We come in the age's most uncertain hours and sing an American tune." Obama's Theme | Reviewer: Chet | 11/2/08 And today, 11/2/08 Obama debuted this song in a very powerful campaign ad. Nothing but a verse playing over a series of photos that show very well the tailspin in which we find our beloved country. Please, vote for Obama, and give this guy a chance to stop the bleeding, repair the worldwide damage and unite Americans. The republicans will continue to reward the rich, spend our great grandchildren into the poor house and shred the few remaining strings that try to hold Americans together. Thanks to Paul Simon for once again providing such a powerful backdrop for our lives. Review By Pages: 1 2 3 Review the song American Tune The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Paul Simon" Music | |
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