an open love letter to america

music & lyrics by steve alexander 

lyrics: 

fireworks come from the baseball field sound
like gunshots the veterans still taste in their mouth 
and the dogs run inside, barking to the night 
but i couldn’t sleep anyway 

light sparklers on the fourth of july
we celebrate some dead old white guys 
our hands burned from the technicolor sight
bought them off the side of the road, still burning bright 

and if things change between me and you 
i’d scare myself again, it’s this thing that i do
could we even get married, i’ve planned it all out
it’s written on my pillow just read it aloud

i'm coming home my love, it'll be great
i'm coming home my love, sealing my fate 

remember the way your country used to feel 
bright and expansive, proud and surreal 
they could take it all in the palm of their hands 
dance the golden-paved streets, in the land of

divided peoples, some live by their roots
what's the label on the gun?
how many times did he touch you?
the women and children tired of being brave 
force me to join them, guess it’s the new wave 


i'm coming home my love, it'll be great
i'm coming home my love, sealing my fate

you walked the same as me 
we once shared similar dreams 
so when you make a law, do you make sure it benefits all?
if you came back i'd answer your call 
i would run to you and i would fall 

i'm coming home my love, it'll be great
i'm coming home my love, sealing my fate

save me, cause i'm still
gazing at the way down

The Good Old U.S.A

music & lyrics by steve alexander 

lyrics:

my heart is a beehive
a colony alive just working for you 
my head is a disco ball
showering the hall in nostalgia for two  
my body is a rocket
about to launch into some galaxy no one knew
your voice is the nameless song
i've heard all my life
your hands are the one
in house stuck playing wife
your eyes are silence
ivied and cold slice me like a knife 

oh where has that haze of spring gone? 
i am empty as your mother’s dress you once tried on
and i have loved you for so long
since i was a child you have carried me along

and i guess i'm just a temporary feeling
i'm gone away all too soon 
but the memory of me still sends you reeling
just in time before i disappear from your mind 

my soul is excitement 
you get when you’re left home alone
my arms are the comfort 
tucked in a bed that’s your own 
my wrists are where i feel you
blood circulating tied around a bone 
your shoulders are basement beams
weary with ache
your secret is partly known 
like guests at a wake 
your feelings are the candles taking no age 
stolen off the cake

oh where has that winter sting gone?
i am as silver as the streets the night you led me on
and it's not your fault you've done wrong
sometimes this life will put you where it's hard to be strong 

and i guess i'm just a temporary feeling
i'm gone away all too soon 
but the memory of me still sends you reeling
just in time before i disappear from your mind

and i don't wanna let us go
promise you won't lose your hold of me
cause you should know by now
you're someone i can't live without
at least for now 

but baby if only it were easier