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Last American Exit Lyrics
You know the reasons I can't conceal
You know I'm leaving you
obviously you know how I feel
it's not as easy as calling out your name when I'm down
it's not a matter for wrong or right
it ain't much better that drinking and looking to fight
you know I'm tired of crawling hind my name among the crowd
I'm on the last American exit to the northland
I'm on the last American exit to my homeland
I'm on the last American exit to my last chance
they keep calling out my name-shout it down
you've made them wonder and know for sure
you've made them hunger at night and then run for the door
you know you'll probably cry like Caesar's son when
you're found
it's not your place it's another town
let's face it baby I'm up and then baby I'm down
you'll watch the border offer you fame and watch you drown
know your neighbors and know they'll take us
know my city it's just like theirs are
hope I make it. I know I'm going to make it somehow
know my saviour he knows you shakers
know my pity. I'll see you later
I'd like to stay but I know it doesn't matter somehow
They keep callin out my name
They keep callin out my name
They keep callin out my name
I shout it down
You know I'm leaving you
obviously you know how I feel
it's not as easy as calling out your name when I'm down
it ain't much better that drinking and looking to fight
you know I'm tired of crawling hind my name among the crowd
I'm on the last American exit to my homeland
I'm on the last American exit to my last chance
they keep calling out my name-shout it down
you've made them hunger at night and then run for the door
you know you'll probably cry like Caesar's son when
you're found
let's face it baby I'm up and then baby I'm down
you'll watch the border offer you fame and watch you drown
know my city it's just like theirs are
hope I make it. I know I'm going to make it somehow
know my saviour he knows you shakers
know my pity. I'll see you later
I'd like to stay but I know it doesn't matter somehow
They keep callin out my name
They keep callin out my name
I shout it down
Song Info
Submitted by
black_cow_of_death On Jan 26, 2002
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Awesome song...awesome video...need more be said.
"...watch the border offer you fame, and watch you drown"
Can't get much more profound than that.
After listening to this song about 100 times since I discovered it last year, I think finally they're singing about their conflicts about being a Canadian band playing in the US.
They realize, I think, that fame and fortune resides in the big, wealthy US -- "They keep calling out my name, I shout it down" -- but at the same time they realize they do not truly belong in America, in a different land, in a different country.
They're saying goodbye to the US, but also goodbye to the possibilities of the immense fame and fortune it offers them, if only. It's a sad, but a mature, wise goodbye to some of their dreams even as they learn what is important to them.