There's something in the water

Something sick in the blood and the oil

Here's the white chicken grinning

Here's the serpent in a horrible coil

Don't be scared by the stared

Of the peasants on the subway car

Because the way things

Seem in a dream is just the way

That they are

And I can feel God taking

His eyes off you

You were born for American soil

Every race has its place

Every nation fights for species survival

I'm a Jew through and through

And I'm about to write you a Bible

Now let me take your hand

And show you through the twisted

Hallways of the house of song

We got the magazine wallpaper

And a million dollar bills on the lawn

And you can feel God taking his eyes off us

We were born for American soil

Ah ah ah ah ah ah

You don't have to be clever to detect

A big American sadness

When the population rules

Every man has a hand in the madness

There's a dead grove of trees

You can visit on the outside of town

And there's a desolate dust

Inside the cemetery settling down

And I can feel God taking his eyes off us

We were born for American soil

Now we have seen every baby has to

Have some kind of mother and father

But the child's gone wild

And the piece has got away from the author

If freedom isn't free all the bills

Must just be lost in the mail

Because the highways are on fire

And the serpent is now eating its tail

And you can feel God taking his eyes off us

We were born for American soil