One Time One Night Lyrics - Just Another Band From East L.a. - Los Lobos

A wise man was telling stories to me 

About the places he had been to 

And the things that he had seen 

A quiet voice is singing something to me 

An age old song about the home of the brave 

In this land here of the free 

One time one night in America 

A lady dressed in white with the man she loved 

Standing along the side of their pickup truck 

A shot rang out in the night 

Just when everything seemed right 

Another headline written down in America 

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The guy that lived next door in #305 

Took the kids to the park and disappeared 

About half past nine 

Who will ever know 

How much she loved them so 

That dark night alone in America 

A quiet voice is singing something to me 

An age old song about the home of the brave 

In this land here of the free 

One time one night in America 

Four small boys playing ball in a parking lot 

A preacher, a teacher, and the other became a cop 

A car skidded into the rain 

Making the last little one a saint 

One more light goes out in America 

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A young girl tosses a coin in the wishing well 

She hopes for a heaven while for her 

There's just this hell 

She gave away her life 

To become somebody's wife 

Another wish unanswered in America 

People having so much faith 

Die too soon while all the rest come late 

We write a song that no one sings 

On a cold black stone 

Where a lasting peace will finally bring 

The sunlight plays upon my windowpane 

I wake up to a world that's still the same 

My father said to be strong 

And that a good man could never do wrong 

In a dream I had last night in America 

A wise man was telling storie to me 

About the places he had been to 

And the things that he had seen 

A quiet voice is singing something to me 

An age old song about the home of the brave 

In this land here of the free 

One time one night in America