1492

I'm a Russian Jew American Impersonating African Jamaican What I wanna be's an Indian I'm gonna be a cowboy in the end I guess I guess I bought a gun cause it impresses All the little girls I see And then they all wanna sleep with me Oh, where do we disappear? Into the silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end Where all these people who impersonate our friends Say, "Come again, come again, come again" Into the dark Italian underground of disco lights and disco sound And skinny girls who drink champagne And take me on their knees again Then pull me up and out the door Past railway cars and tranny whores And morning spreading out across the feathered thighs of angels Oh, where do we disappear? Into the silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end Where they try to push you out to keep you in And say, "Come again, come again, come again" In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue In 1493, came home across the deep blue sea In 1494, he did it with the girl next door In 1495, he barely made it out alive In 1964, these sailors left me at the door In 1970, some people got their hands on me Now I'm the king of everything And I'm the king of nothing Now I'm the king of everything I am the king of nothing Oh, where do we disappear? Into the silence that surrounds us And then drowns us in the end Where all these people who impersonate our friends Say, "Come again, come again. come again" Oh, where do we disappear? Into the silence that surrounds us And then drowns us in the end Where they try to get you out to get you in And all these people who impersonate our friends Say, "Come again, come again, come again" --- 1492 - Counting Crows