Usa Lyrics

 (Shane MacGowan)
  
 When I was young 
 I watched the cars  
 When I was older 
 I drank in bars  
 When I was young 
 I chewed the leaves 
 When I was older 
 I drank with thieves
 I found a love
 She gave me dreams  
 She left me drunk
 In New Orleans
 So cold and lonely  
 So all alone  
 I wished my heart
 Was made of stone
 I took the cold bright needle
 I used it as a sword
 My eyes have seen the glory of  
 The coming of the Lord 
 I burned across the delta 
 I swam across the ford 
 My eyes have seen the glory of  
 The coming of the Lord 
 When I was a young man 
 Standing on this road  
 My empty belly
 An aching hole
 An old man said to me  
 "Kid don't you know 
 That it's the same  
 Wherever you go" 
  
 I gambled in two graveyards  
 I won against the odds 
 With the smiling saints
 And the silent saviours
 With the maggots and the gods
 I cursed the things they showed me 
 I could never see again
 And the howling of the wind at night  
 I wrote upon the rain  
  
 I found the thing
 For which I prayed  
 And came back home  
 To the USA 
 With a heart of stone  
 And now I know
 That it's the same  
 Wherever you go