[ti:born in the usa] [ar:bruce springsteen ] [offset:500] [00:17.00]Born down in a dead man’s town [00:20.00]The first kick I took was when I hit the ground [00:24.00]You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much [00:28.00]Till you spend half your life just covering up [00:33.00][00:45.00][01:05.00][01:12.00][02:39.00][02:47.00][02:55.00][02:58.00][03:02.00]Born in the [00:36.00][00:40.00][01:08.00][01:16.00][02:42.00]I was born in the [00:49.00]Got in a little hometown jam [00:53.00]So they put a rifle in my hand [00:57.00]Sent me off to a foreign land [01:00.00]To go and kill the yellow man [01:20.00]Come back home to the refinery [01:23.00]Hiring man said "Son if it was up to me" [01:28.00]Went down to see my V.A. man [01:31.00]He said "Son, don’t you understand" [01:51.00]I had a brother at Khe Sahn [01:55.00]Fighting off the Viet Cong [01:59.00]They’re still there, he’s all gone [02:07.00]He had a woman he loved in Saigon [02:11.00]I got a picture of him in her arms now [02:22.00]Down in the shadow of the penitentiary [02:26.00]Out by the gas fires of the refinery [02:30.00]I’m ten years burning down the road [02:34.00]Nowhere to run ain’t got nowhere to go [02:49.00]I’m a long gone Daddy in the [03:05.00]I’m a cool rocking Daddy in the now