American Love

from American Love by Camden Joy

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I wrote this song in 1990. Quite possibly I got the phrase "American Love" from The Watchmen. I think of this as a World War Two song, it has that kind of romance.

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I was working in a weapons plant making American Love to drop in the waters of a faraway land from many miles above. And when they drink they just grow thirstier, spreading rumors of an empire where one could drink from a bottomless cup and dream of American love.
On the payroll of the Pentagon I made American Love. We’d sing of romance eternally strong as we loaded the canisters up. But the money I made seemed to slip away, so I worked double shifts and holidays. But I could never pay for all I had bought and I lost my American Love.
We don’t ask for too much here, Just things that don’t disappear. We have nothing left to fear but fear.
Out of an echo I still heard in my heart I made American Love. From secret documents exchanged in the dark, we learned to spend half and make twice as much. But then the memory of what love once was began to fade into a pathetic lust. The boom we needed bottomed out and went bust. Just then the world fell in American Love

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from American Love, released July 4, 2020
Bass by Mark Lerner.

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Camden Joy Middlebury, Vermont

lo-fi americana and caustic wit swirl about a 1970s suburban garage where a 1950s country band plays timeless originals and succinct gems.

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