Searching For America Lyrics - Hunger - Janis Ian

Where have you been that made you weep 

And left these stains upon your cheek 

What did you see while you were gone 

That haunts your eyes this sunny dawn 

They herded us like so much meat 

Up from the sewers to the street 

Where concrete canyons stretched their walls 

So high it made us want to crawl 

Past proverbs writ on subway cars 

And in-between the window bars 

We walked until the pavement bled 

And not a curse was left unsaid 

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Into a place that knows no spring 

Where only steel and silver sing 

They made us dance until we dropped 

And the music of the jackhammers stopped 

I caught a cinder in my eye 

Searching for a patch of sky 

But the shadows drizzled down like in Pompeii 

That's how I spent my yesterday 

Searching for America 

In the rivets and the rust 

Searching for America 

Finding only dust 

What did you see that made you cry 

And left these trackmarks on your eye 

What did you find while you were there 

That sucks the light out of the morning air 

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They gave us each a cropper's shack 

And land so hard it broke our back 

Then fed us 'til our bellies burst 

On promises that died at birth 

So I lay the baby out each dawn 

In-between the tender corn 

With sunrise for her bonnet 

And flies her only blanket 

We harvested until we bled 

'Til every single root ran red 

And when the work was finally done 

They gave our names to immigration 

I did not know how bad it hurt 

Until I lay there eating dirt 

And the cold seeped in between my bones 

That's where I was when I left home 

Searching for America 

All her dreams and hopes 

Searching for America 

Finding only ghosts 

Who are these people you have seen 

To dream this dark and distant dream 

To tell the stories you have told 

To leave these bruises on your soul 

They are the flesh, they are the bone 

They are the very cornerstone 

They leave their mansions and their shacks 

To hide here in-between the cracks 

Their hope is tattooed on my lips 

Bleeding from my fingertips 

They are crawling toward the promised land 

Hand over hand 

To walk until they run no more 

And wash up on some distant shore 

Where truth is not the enemy 

And whatever does not kill us, sets us free 

Somewhere out there 

Are millions just like me 

Homesick for Eden 

Heartsick at the memory 

Searching for America 

In every stick and stone 

Searching for America 

Going home 

Searching for America 

Going home