Lyrics > The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – [Unknown Title #4 / ‘American Nightmare’]

Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI
From: Live / Unreleased
Source: Pop Catastrophe
Notes: Unreleased ‘American Nightmare’ Damage-era demo. Text in RED is incorrect.

Afro (Mo' Width)

Attack (Detroit)

Bacon / Bacon (Sansano)

The Ballad of Joe Buck

Banana Meltdown

Beat of the Traps

Bellbottoms (Album)

Bellbottoms (Single)

Bellbottoms (Original Long Ending)

Betty vs The NYPD

Big Yule Log Boogie

Black Betty (Advert)

The Black Godfather

Blowing My Mind

Blue Green Olga

Blues Explosion Attack

Blues X Man (Live)

Calvin's On a Bummer

Cold Cold Eyes (Demo)

Cold Cold Eyes (Live)

Confused (Zebra Ranch)

Cooking For Television

Devil Got My Woman

Don't Wanna Live Like The Dead (Short Version)

Don't Wanna Live Like The Dead (Long Version)

Do The Get Down

Down In The Beast

Down Low (Studio)

Down Low (Live)

Do Ya Wanna Get It?

Do You Wanna Get Heavy?

Fed Up And Low Down

Frosty Junction

Fuck Shit Up (Live)

Fudgy The Whale

The Funky Gremlin

Get With It (Live)

Get Your Pants Off

Get Your Pants On (Daytrotter)

Get Your Pants On (KEXP)

Give Me A Chance

Happy Birthday Elvis Presley

Heavy (Remix) / (Simulated Dummies)

Help These Blues

History Of Lies

Inside The World Of The Blues Explosion

I Wanna Make It All Right

I Wanna Make It All Right (Zebra Ranch)

Jailhouse Blues

Kawasaki ZII750 Rock 'n' Roll

Killer Wolf (Live)

Leave Me Alone So I Can Rock Again

Love Ain't On The Run

Lovin' Machine (Automator)

Lovin' Up A Storm

Magical Colors (31 Flavors)

Mean Heart (Live)

Meet Me In The City

Memphis Soul Typecast

The Midnight Creep

The Midnight Creep (Live)

Money Rock 'N' Roll

My Christmas Wish

New Year (Destroyer)

New Year (Rough)

No Reservations

Not Clear Still

Ole Man Trouble

Over And Over (Live)

Rattling (Live On Jonesy’s Jukebox)

Rattling (Radio)

Right Place Wrong Time

Rob K / Rob K is President

Roosevelt Hotel Blues

Shake ‘em On Down (Edit)

Shakin' Rock 'N' Roll Tonight

She Said (Single Edit)

Showgirl Pts 1 & 2

Son of Sam (Live)

Special Rider Blues

Tales of Old New York: The Rock Box

Talk About The Blues

T.A.T.B. (For The Saints and Sinners Remix)

Tell Me That You Love Me

That's All Right

Then Again I Will

There Stands The Glass

Thunderbird ESQ

Tore Up & Broke

Try a Little Tenderness

Unknown Title #1

Unknown Title #2

Unknown Title #3

Unknown Title #4

Unknown Title #5 / KRCC

Wail (Video Mix)

Welcome To Daytrotter

White Jesus (Live)

White Jesus Part I / II

You Been My Baby

I see a man in my nightmare
Oh, we’re running scared
The sky’s full of black, black smoke
And lies ain’t working

The planet Mars hanging red in the sky
Like how it got down to this
The sheets bedding down on the streets
And what it was

Newspapers are filled with wars
And crowd and confusion done for
Blaming me and a you for the business deals that are going wrong
It’s like fog of conufusion
All the more, 10,000 are wrong
Crumbled stop worry
This what you want me for

Said baby, come on
American nightmare
We’re running scared
Got no work
More rent
And no electricity

We’re howling at a war
Everybody said what was this for
Lot of people
Well, some people get rich
I’m kinda dizzy now I’m getting
This American nightmare
Is running scared
And to cap it all off
Some Philadelpia dies

Well
Rocket, rocket USA
All now, we’re getting hell
Gon’ crash
Gon’ die
All across the USA

Ohhhh woooo

Do you wanna get it one more time?
Say yeah
Say yeah
Well, sock it to me
Well

Oh, what you gonna do?
When they come for you
Oh
And they gonna come alright
Knocking on your door in the middle of the night
Try moving up to Hawaii or some shit like that?
It ain’t gonna work
They still gonna get the tape on the mouth

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