American Guitars - The Auteurs

They were failing dutifully

If you’re going to fail at all

Failing came more easily

Than it did to us all

And i wanted to be there

See them begin

It was easy to see they were

The best band to be in

I gave up drugging

When you spiked my drink

Stopped freeloading

When i could not get in I gave up singing

When i was told

I could not dance

Knew my place in the world

When i heard them start

Woke up on sunday morning

With a hole

The size of my pool

Couldn’t believe

I?

d grown so ugly

Couldn’t believe

I?

d been so cruel

I should’ve set back

Thought about their past

East coast to west coast

How they’d struggled

For their art

Some people

Were born to write

Some people

Were born to dance

Thought i knew my place in the world

Thought i knew my art

Glad to be there, see them begin

It was easy to see

They were the best band to be American guitars…