Name: The American Way
Duration: P00H04M20S
Description: Our hero loves his country, like any good caped crusader should. But over the years he’s learned that the louder someone shouts about how great America is, the less likely they are to be interested in actually improving it, and the more prone they tend to be toward casually damaging it. He finds this exhausting.

The American Way

from Super by Wonderlick

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Our hero loves his country, like any good caped crusader should. But over the years he’s learned that the louder someone shouts about how great America is, the less likely they are to be interested in actually improving it, and the more prone they tend to be toward casually damaging it. He finds this exhausting.

lyrics

LYRICS

The American way is relentless
The American way is to achieve
The American way is momentous
It’s dynamic, optimistic and naïve

The American way is little children
The American way has appetites
The American way is to fulfill them
It is inches, it is ounces, Fahrenheit

The American way is in the Bible
The American way comes from the ground
The American way is unrivalled
It is heavy, it is blonde, it has a sound

The American way thinks it’s splendid
The American way plays hardball
The American way must be defended
From the people who invoke it most of all

The American way (10x)

Oh say can you see?
By the dawn’s early light
Purple majesty
Land where my fathers died

The American Way is inconsistent
The American Way is rock and roll
The American Way needs assistance
It takes its time, it takes names it takes a toll

The American Way is corporations
The American Way is packing heat
The American Way hates regulations
It’s obnoxious but it’s not yet obsolete

It’s a song that’s stuck on repeat
stuck on repeat
stuck on repeat
repeat repeat repeat repeat
song that’s stuck on repeat
stuck on repeat
stuck on repeat
stuck on repeat
stuck on repeat
The American way

credits

from Super, released September 11, 2015
Recorded by Johannes Luley at Studio SQ, San Francisco. Assistant engineer: Justin Weiss Mixed by Johannes Luley at My Sonic Temple, Los Angeles, CA

Daniel Fabricant: Bass
Chris Brague: Drums
Ken Flagg: Keyboards
Gretchen Giselle: Lady vocals
Leo & Lucy Blumenfield and their friend Corrina who tagged along: Background vocals
Jay and Tim: Almost everything else
The Bonerama Horns:
Mark Mullins - Trombone, Horn arrangements
Craig Klein - Trombone
Greg Hicks - Trombone

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