Jill Stevenson

AmTrack

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I don't want to go to work
I don't want to get a job
I don't want to have to borrow
I don't want to have to rob
I just want to get away
And I don't want to look back
I want to get off the train on the American Track

When I was young I moved around
I saw smiles and I saw frowns
I met a man I thought I loved
And then he let me down
So I learned I shouldn't care
I got tough and I wore black
And I jumped off the train on the American Track

I saw white and I saw black
I saw the police Attack
I saw people going hungry
While the government got fat
I don't like to complain
No I don't want to be like that
But you can only take so much on the American Track

I don't want to got to work
I don't want to get a job
I don't want to have to borrow
I don't want to have to rob
You could spend a hundred years
And you could never get them back
And they'll haunt you everyday on the American Track.

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2010-12-21 17:57:55

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by kotajade

11y ago

i love this song and the meaning i have been looking for it to download it since ryan and avalon sung it on can you duet,now i have it on my reverbnation and on my facebook which is tom walters (tommy) but don't know how to download it from there and it is full version but it is on youtube also but live and not full version would like to get full version if you sing it would greatly like to know how to download your song or you singing it thank you very much

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