American Eyes - The Lilac Time

Here is a story of three young people

A girl and two boys

She’s got American eyes

American eyes

They left school for fame and fortune

But she was the one

The girl with the stars in her eyes

Stars and stripes in her eyes

I was one of the boys

Oh how I loved her

But she wouldn’t see me

She shut her apple pie eyes

As blue as Jamaica skies

And oh unrequited love quite often grows

And never quite goes

He was one of the boys

He joined the army

He sailed from American shores

To fight the foreigners' wars

Baby shut your eyes up tight

I swear the world won’t end tonight

And when we die our spirits fly

Into the light above the sky