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America Never Been

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Car Seat Headrest is an American indie rock band formed in Leesburg, Virginia, and currently located in Seattle, Washington. The band consists of Will Toledo (vocals, guitar, piano, and synthesizers), Ethan Ives (guitar, bass, backing vocals), Seth Dalby (bass), and Andrew Katz (drums, percussion).

Beginning as a solo recording project by Toledo in 2010, Car Seat Headrest self-released 12 albums on the music platform Bandcamp, before signing to Matador Records in 2015. Car Seat Headrest would begin touring as a full band the following year.

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Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

[Intro]
A

[Verse]
A Aaug
You can drive across the whole thing
F#m A
in four days if you really wanted
G F#m
leaving custom thank you notes
A D
in all the houses you ever haunted
A Aaug
in this whole solar system
F#m G
we've only met one type of life
A Aaug
it's the living kind of life
Bm D
and it's not one I recognize

[Chorus]
A G F#m A
America, America
A G Bm D
America, America
A G F#m A
America, America
A G E D
America, America

[Verse]
A
I said "excuse me" to the ocean
Aaug
because I thought I had got in its way
F#m
At first I didn't think it heard me
A
but then I saw it wave
A
You can spend every living moment thinking
Aaug
How can I get out alive?
F#m
But is it really then, can you really call it
A
Hey man, just shut up and drive
A
I thought we'd be on the road all night
Aaug
when that ice storm hit in Texas
F#m
and when we pulled into the gas station
G
It was like a frozen oasis
A
Oh, sweet mama,
Aaug
does that neon sign shine for me?
Bm
Is there a street where my name glows
D
all through the night?

[Chorus]
A G
And I've never read (America)
F#m A
No I've never been (America)
A G
I just never went (America)
Bm D
I have never seen (America)
A G
And I've never read (America)
F#m A
No I've never been (America)
A G
I just never went (America)
E D
I just wanna see (America)

[Verse]
A
All my fantasies are faking orgasms
Aaug
They're only in it for the money I made up for them
F#m
I trade in ideas, opinion and artistry
A
And my face is on every dollar
A
This is heaven but heaven is here
Aaug
This is heaven but heaven is hard
Bm
Because your lover is listening to music you don't know
D
And you're tangled up in the headphone wires
A
You know our problems, they don't end
Aaug
Just because we get boy/girlfriends
F#m
Is this your salvation plan?
G
Is this your salvation plan?
A
Oh, there's only one type of love
Aaug
It's the loving kind of love
Bm
But when you're mad at me it's the end of times
D
And I'm mad at you all the other times

[Chorus]
A G
And I've never read (America)
F#m A
No I've never been (America)
A G
I just never went (America)
Bm D
I have never seen (America)
A G
And I've never read (America)
F#m A
No I've never been (America)
A G
I just never went (America)
E D
I just wanna see (America)

[Bridge]
E
Real life's a mess
A
But at least you're not paying rent
D
You've been making it, maybe even breaking even
Bm G
You oughta be content
E
It doesn't make sense
A
You're still sitting on the fence
G
When the yard is yours
F#m
And it was money well spent

[Chorus]
A G
And I've never read (America)
F#m A
No I've never been (America)
A G
I just never went (America)
Bm D
I have never seen (America)
A
America (America)
A
America (America)
A
Democracy (America)
A
Biographies (America)
A G
Civil rights! (America), basically
F#m A
Bright lights! (America) Living in the city
A G
Second prize (America) in a beauty pageant
F#m A
200 dollars, (America) This is life.