America (click one second)
by Paul Simon
"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 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 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 gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
In the city of Saginaw, where the song was written, the street artist Eric Shantz started to spray-paint lyrics of the song America by Simon and Garfunkel in vacant buildings and some people joined him.
This is a very special song and each phrase written in such a simple way touches numerous aspects of our individuality and our relation with our city and country.
I listened yesterday this song and I remembered the feeling I had when I was a teenager. It still have the same power but at least "the man in the gabardine suit", that was the constant surveillance of dictatorship, is gone.
Other types of spying are being done but that is the way it is. I'm dedicating this post to all the Americans who are trying hard to look for America.
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