America - Lyrics - Simon & Garfunkel

America is a song written by Paul Simon in 1964 and recorded by Simon & Garfunkel for their 1968 album Bookends...This folk/pop song was released as a single in 1972 and peaked at number 97 on the Billboard Hot 100......A readers poll by Rolling Stone Magazine rated it as the number four best by the duo.......It is a song about a couple seeking America during a period of restlessness and confusion during troubling times in America,.....sounds like today in our history

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 we 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 gone 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 bow tie 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
And 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

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