Across America

The crowd's going wild Their energy aimed at one spot, a dot, a frame A single entity, a sight to see The crowd's going wild And who's to say That this nobody from Boston isn't gonna blow the world away She's standing at the line Her vibrancy feeds the applause She draws her gun Pearl-handled, hold it high and shoots the sky She's standing at the line And who's to say that this nobody from tenement b Won't pave the way And you can't stop her now She's racing across America Ohh And she won't come back down She's flying The press love me They offer me paid interviews I start lecturing on my specialist subjects And selling ad space on my body Before long anyone who is anyone is fighting for a space on Annies back I'm on the open road Untravelled adventures Await each state, a revelation Ev'ry turn a chance to learn I'm on the open road I sleep beneath the stars And sure there's been some lumps and bumps, infected wounds and battle scars But I have to stay the course Each tendon, each ligament aches It takes the spirit of an amazon to carry on But I have to stay the course Though I am black and blue This nobody from tenement b Will see this through And you can't stop me now I'm racing across America Ohh And I won't come back down I'm flying I'm trying It's all an idea of how it'll be A romance I seen A chance to be free A fun upbeat story all smiles and cheer But what's going on beneath the veneer One putrid outfit that's laid in with mud Two blacken knees, a dorm with dry blood Three months of toil in the US avail Success can't seem any further away Four sleepless nights lying out in the cold Five blocks of ad space I still haven't sold Six weeks of feeling this ache in my chest The crippling fear that I won't pass this test It's September and I've only made it to Chicago There's no chance I can get through the Rockies to San Francisco before snow begins to fall Which mean I can't board the ship to Asia as planned I make a public statement that I failed You can do it though I know you can Takes me a week to get myself together I swap my idiotic skirt for a cycling suit designed for Yeah you guessed it, men! And I pave out a new route I swallow my pride and head back the way I came And if I'm fast enough When I get to New York I can catch the La Touraine liner to France Then I can do my prime route in reverse Finally sailing from Japan to San Fran' Before racing toward the finish line in Chicago Yes! And ohh You can't stop me now I'm racing across America Ohh (ohh, ohh, oh) I won't come back down I'm flying I'm flying