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American Lovers

Becker/Fagen penned track covered by various artists, namely Thomas Jefferson Kaye

Note: These lyrics are sourced from the 2011 Rarities Night performance. Male and female names and pronouns are swapped in this version due to the female backing vocalists taking lead.

I was walking
With my Johnny
By the San Francisco Bay
We were laughing
We were crying
We could hear those guitars play
I remember a bright new dawn
Was everything we did pretend
Or the beginning of the end

You may be the last
To walk in the garden
Your life should be living
To love one another
And it is no crime
To walk with your brother
You're playing with time
American lovers

All around me
I see people
With no fire behind their eyes
They are grieving
Like a blackbird
When their wings no longer fly
When they ask me, "Tell me why?"
All that I can say is hear your heart
You should have listened
From the start

You may be the last
To walk in the garden
Your life should be living
To love one another
And it is no crime
To walk with your brother
You're playing with time
American lovers

I remember a bright new dawn
Was everything we did pretend
Or the beginning of the end

You may be the last
To walk in the garden
Your life should be living
To love one another
And it is no crime
To walk with your brother
You're playing with time
American lovers
You may be the last
To walk in the garden
Your life should be living
To love one another
And it is no crime
To walk with your brother
You're playing with time
American lovers