Got a one-way ticket down a two way street
Got the wind in my hair and there's dust on my feet
I'm just trying
To make it in America
Only thing to my name is an old t-shirt
Faded nine-teen eighty-five from a Stones concert
And I'm dying
To make it in America
And I'm singing the words to my favourite song
With the rag-top down and my glasses on
and I'm driving
Straight through America
I wanna taste the sun
'Cause baby, I'm born to run
I've gotta feeling that I'm not the only one
I, I wanna show some skin
'Cause baby, I need the ocean
You can't stop me now I've got my heart in motion
I, wanna make it in america
make it in america
I can see my star sunset and vine
Gonna carve my name in the Hollywood sign
Yeah I gotta,
gotta make it in America
See me wearin a smile, even if I'm broke
I'll be singing the words from a song I wrote
And I called
it make it in America
I wanna taste the sun
'Cause baby, I'm born to run
I've gotta feeling that I'm not the only one
I, I wanna show some skin
'Cause baby, I need the ocean
You can't stop me now I've got my heart in motion
I, wanna make it in america
make it in america
Chorus
I can feel the sweat dripping down my face
I can hear my heart as it starts to race
Yeah some-times this world's such a lonely place
If I just push on I know that
Chorus
I wanna taste the sun
'Cause baby, I'm born to run
I've gotta feeling that I'm not the only one
I, I wanna show some skin
'Cause baby, I need the ocean
You can't stop me now I've got my heart in motion
I, wanna make it in america
make it in america