Patrick McCarthy: Vocals, keyboards
Fred Chappuis: Drums, guitars
Pierre Angeloz: Lead electric & accoustic guitars
Megan Carpenter: Backing Vocals
Nicolas Gachoud: Bass
THIS USED TO BE AMERICA
A snapshot taken in a family album
Love always showed the way
Without characters shapen in the heat of the summers
Where would you be today
Once upon a time there was a beautiful land
With natifs, buffalo and mountains and sand
But 1492 came the colonisation
With the painful demise of the Indian Nation
This used to be America
Now they’re lost in the shadows
This used to be America
Vikings early on and then Columbus’ Quest
Gun and bible in the hand they took over the West
And the natives went under in an ocean of tears
And now all they do is sell souvenirs
And the wise men’s words can’t save you
Not even Ghandi’s words can save you
Michael Jackson, Peter Pan, Watergate and Vietnam
Spaceships in New Mexico, suicides in Idaho
Global Warming, Ciber Crime, plastic in my waterline
9-11, values lost, money’s king at any cost
This used to be America
Now they’re lost in the shadows
This used to be America
And the wise men’s words can’t save you
Not even Ghandi’s words can save you
Another time, another place
This is a familiar face
A bigger gun, a bigger house,
Cathy is my cybermouse
And since we have to play this game
And basically we’re all the same
We have two eyes but some can’t see
Another Ideology
This used to be America
Now they’re lost in the shadows
This used to be America
This Used to be America
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Added on 16 April 2022
Credits and thanks
This Used to be America
Website: www.fastheaven.com
Video Production : Fiverr Music International, www.fiverr.com & Stéphane Schmutz, www.stemutz.ch
Music & Lyrics: Patrick McCarthy
Recorded, mixed and engineered by Fred Chappuis, Switzerland
Mastering: The Vault Mastering Studios, Phoenix, Arizona, Nathan James
Cover Design: Ludovic Chappex, Graphiste/Illustrateur www.ludovicchappex.ch
Patrick McCarthy: Vocals, keyboards
Fred Chappuis: Drums, guitars
Pierre Angeloz: Lead electric & accoustic guitars
Megan Carpenter: Backing Vocals
Nicolas Gachoud: Bass
THIS USED TO BE AMERICA
A snapshot taken in a family album
Love always showed the way
Without characters shapen in the heat of the summers
Where would you be today
Once upon a time there was a beautiful land
With natifs, buffalo and mountains and sand
But 1492 came the colonisation
With the painful demise of the Indian Nation
This used to be America
Now they’re lost in the shadows
This used to be America
Vikings early on and then Columbus’ Quest
Gun and bible in the hand they took over the West
And the natives went under in an ocean of tears
And now all they do is sell souvenirs
And the wise men’s words can’t save you
Not even Ghandi’s words can save you
Michael Jackson, Peter Pan, Watergate and Vietnam
Spaceships in New Mexico, suicides in Idaho
Global Warming, Ciber Crime, plastic in my waterline
9-11, values lost, money’s king at any cost
This used to be America
Now they’re lost in the shadows
This used to be America
And the wise men’s words can’t save you
Not even Ghandi’s words can save you
Another time, another place
This is a familiar face
A bigger gun, a bigger house,
Cathy is my cybermouse
And since we have to play this game
And basically we’re all the same
We have two eyes but some can’t see
Another Ideology
This used to be America
Now they’re lost in the shadows
This used to be America
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