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Your Best American Girl

La canción Your Best American Girl de Mitski habla sobre las complejidades de tratar de encajar en una cultura que no es inherentemente tuya y el deseo de ser el ideal de alguien, a pesar de las diferencias culturales. Mitski escribió esta canción como una forma de expresar sus sentimientos de alienación al crecer como japonesa-americana. La letra narra la historia de un amor no correspondido debido a diferencias culturales y la aceptación de la ... propia identidad. Ver más [+]

If I could, I'd be your little spoon
And kiss your fingers forevermore
But, big spoon, you have so much to do
And I have nothing ahead of me
You're the sun, you've never seen the night
But you hear its song from the morning birds
Well, I'm not the moon, I'm not even a star
But awake at night I'll be singing to the birds

Don't wait for me, I can't come

Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me
But I do, I think I do
And you're an All-American boy
I guess I couldn't help trying to be your best American girl

You're the one
You're all I ever wanted
I think I'll regret this

Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me
But I do, I finally do
And you're an All-American boy
I guess I couldn't help trying to be the best American girl
Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me
But I do, I think I do