American Television Songtext
von Native Son

I wouldn′t say it to your face!
Unless I burned up at the same time
New thing
I guess I heard it through the grapevine
New stain
I know a burden and she takes time
Two tame, I'm your dog
Whose name on my collar
I′d seen the weather take a turn
And all
Under the bridge a nigga deigned to fall off
If I call
Will I bother the world
Will be there be blood if I cough up a word?


Just a thought again
Then a shape that takes the breath out of the hall
If you called
Would I fall again?
In a way that makes my head bang on the walls —
Different faces
Take your places
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Channel
Dear

Take your
Places
Different faces
Change this
Channel
Dear

And we all get done


I couldn't even say your name
Just a letter in the wind
For all that talk
Another sedentary grin
How far I'd walk
To put my tether in your grip
To follow along
Just a slobbering dog
And I know
That when the weather took a turn
A squall!
You sent a vision on the wind
A hallmark
Just a thought that could call up a world
Would you wake up if you thought that I heard?

Just the thought again
Then a shape that takes the breath out of the hall
If you called
Would I fall again?
In a way that makes my head bang on the walls

Different faces
Take your places
Change this
Channel
Dear

Take your
Places
Different faces-
Change this
Channel
Dear

And we all get done