Name: I Don't Want To Wake Up Dead In America
Duration: P00H04M46S
Description: I wrote this after getting the title from my Twitter friend Matt Kik from the Storm of Crows. He was nice enough to sing backups and play acoustic guitar on it.

I Don't Want To Wake Up Dead In America

from Making Music For No One by The Godzilla Attacks Tokyo Kamikaze Blues Band

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I wrote this after getting the title from my Twitter friend Matt Kik from the Storm of Crows. He was nice enough to sing backups and play acoustic guitar on it.

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I spend my life in this dead end town
Nothing here for me, no reason to hang around
I’ve got no money and no place to go
Even if I did I couldn’t make it on my own

They call me a loser, call me a clown
They say I’m nothing while they push me around
I try to fit in but there’s nothing I can do
I hear what they’re saying and I agree with them too

Why am I here? Why am I all alone?
I’m just a loser with no place to go

I don’t want to wake up dead in America
I’d rather die somewhere else
I don’t want to wake up dead in America
Please let me die anywhere else

I search for hope but there’s none in sight
I can’t even begin to know what’s wrong or right
I wish there was someone out there for me
I’ve looked my whole life and there is no one I can see

I only hope there’s a way get out
Even if there is, I just don’t know how
I walk alone in the dead of night
I look in their windows but I’m completely out of site

Why am I here? Why am I all alone?
I’m just a loser with no place to go

I don’t want to wake up dead in America
I’d rather die somewhere else
I don’t want to wake up dead in America
Please let me die anywhere else

I spend my life in this dead end town
No one here for me, no one else around

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from Making Music For No One, released May 13, 2022
Written and Performed by Michael D. Smull
Background Vocals and Acoustic Guitar by Matt Kik

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The Godzilla Attacks Tokyo Kamikaze Blues Band is the music of Mike Smull. I make blues and early rock inspired music as well as the occasional straight up rock tune.

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