[Verse]
Flags waving high under skies of fire
Concrete jungles hum like a choir
Dreams on the freeway loud and fast
A place where the future eats the past
Stars in the asphalt blinking slow
Every street's a story
Every block's a show
Red white blue in the glow of screens
Chasing gold
Chasing ghosts
Chasing big machines
[Chorus]
American America
Shout it loud
For the dreamers
The hustlers
The unbowed
American America
Built to run
For the broken
The bold
And everyone
[Verse 2]
Neon rivers
They cut the night
Voices rise with the city lights
Fast food
Fast life
Fast cars burn
But the slow truth's something we still learn
Mountains of hope
Valleys of pain
Thunderstorms on the desert plain
Every anthem’s got a crack in the sound
But we patch it up
Keep spinning around
[Prechorus]
Who are we
Where do we go
Under the stars
Under the glow