She's up before the sun, on the run, another dollar, another day, another cup of coffee
Thank you, Lord, for giving me one more
She still leans on her dreams but it seems, sometimes she's the only one who still believes
That life is hard, so she takes it on with an American Heart
And it beats like a drum down in New Orleans, sings like a Motown melody
It dreams like California, bigger than the Texas sky
It bleeds, it scars, but it shines when times get hard
And you can't break an American heart
From the small town Friday night lights to the Broadway neon burning up bright
We're all the same and it's in our veins
A spirit that you can't keep down, a fire inside that'll never burn out
If you are the owner of an American heart
And it beats like a drum down in New Orleans, sings like a Motown melody
It dreams like California, bigger than the Texas sky
It bleeds, it scars, but it shines when times get hard
And you can't break an American heart
An American heart
And it beats like a drum down in New Orleans, sings like a Motown melody
It dreams like California, bigger than the Texas sky
It bleeds, it scars, but it shines when times get hard
And you can't break, you can't break an American heart
An American heart, an American heart