Young Americans Lyrics

The song Young Americans is performed by The Cure in the album named Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001 in the year 2004 .



They pulled in just behind the fridge
He lays her down, he frowns
Gee my life's a funny thing
Am I still too young?

He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything

All night
She wants the young American
Young American, young American
She wants the young American

All right
She wants the young American

Scanning life through the picture window she
Finds the slinky vagabond
He coughs as he pa*ses her Ford Mustang, but
Heaven forbid, she can take anything

But the freak and his type, all for nothing
He misses a step and cuts his hand
Showing nothing, he swoops like a song
She cries, "Where have all Papa's heroes gone?"

All night
She wants the young American
Young American, young American
She wants the young American

All right
She wants the young American

All the way from Washington
Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor
Live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?

All night
He wants the young American
Young American, young American
He wants the young American

All right
He wants the young American

Do you remember, President Clinton?
Do you remember, Bill you have to pay?
Or even yesterday

Bein' the un-American
Just you and your idol singing falsetto 'bout
Leather, leather everywhere and
Not a myth left from the ghetto

Well, well, well, would you carry a razor?
In a case just in case of depression
Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
Blushing at all the Afro-Sheilas

Ain't that close to love?
Ain't that poster love?
Well it ain't that Barbie doll
Her heart's been broken just like you

All night
You want the young American
Young American, young American
You want the young American

All right
You want the young American

You're not a pimp and you're not a hustler
The pimp's got a Cadillac, the lady got a Chrysler
Black's got respect and white's got his soul train
Mama's got cramps and look at your hands ache

[incomprehensible]

I got a suite and you got defeat
Ain't there a man who can say no more?
Ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?
Ain't there a child I can hold without judging?
Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?

Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
Ain't there one damn song
That can make me break down and cry?
Break down and cry?

All night
I want the young American
Young American, young American
I want the young American

All right
I want the young American
Young American, young American
I want the young American

All night
Young American, young American
I want the young American

All right
Young American, young American, young American
I want the young American

I want the young American
I want the young American
I want the young American
I want the young American

Young American, young American
I want the young American
Young American, young American
I want the young American
Young American, young American
I want the young American



The Cure - Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001

Jan 2004

  1. 10:15 Saturday Night
  2. Plastic Passion
  3. Pillbox Tales
  4. Do the Hansa
  5. I'm Cold
  6. Another Journey by Train
  7. DeScent
  8. Splintered in Her Head
  9. Lament (Flexipop Version)
  10. Just One Kiss
  11. The Dream
  12. The Upstairs Room
  13. Lament
  14. Speak My Language
  15. Mr Pink Eyes
  16. Happy the Man
  17. Throw Your Foot
  18. New Day
  19. The Exploding Boy
  20. A Few Hours After This...
  21. A Man Inside My Mouth
  22. Stop Dead
  23. A Japanese Dream
  24. Breathe
  25. A Chain of Flowers
  26. Snow in Summer
  27. Sugar Girl
  28. Icing Sugar (Weird Remix)
  29. Hey You!!! (Kevorkian 12" Remix)
  30. How Beautiful You Are (Clearmountain 7" Remix)
  31. To the Sky
  32. Babble
  33. Out of Mind
  34. 2 Late
  35. Fear of Ghosts
  36. Hello I Love You (Psychedelic Version)
  37. Hello I Love You
  38. Hello I Love You (10sec Version)
  39. Harold and Joe
  40. Just Like Heaven ('Chuck' Remix)
  41. This Twilight Garden
  42. Play
  43. Halo
  44. Scared as You
  45. The Big Hand
  46. A Foolish Arrangement
  47. Doing the Unstuck (Saunders 12" Remix)
  48. Purple Haze (Virgin Radio Version)
  49. Purple Haze
  50. Burn
  51. Young Americans
  52. Dredd Song
  53. It Used to Be ME
  54. Ocean
  55. Adonais
  56. Home
  57. Waiting
  58. A Pink Dream
  59. This Is a Lie (Palmer Remix)
  60. Wrong Number (Smith Remix)
  61. More Than This
  62. World in My Eyes
  63. Possession
  64. Out of This World (Oakenfold Remix)
  65. Maybe Someday (Hedges Remix)
  66. Coming Up
  67. Signal to Noise (Acoustic Version)
  68. Signal to Noise
  69. Just Say Yes (Curve Remix)
  70. A Forest (Plati/Slick Version)

Young Americans