I Miss America

Harry Chapin

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[Intro] G Em x4 By the time I was thirteen I started taking shape At eighteen I was so beautiful That the strangers started to gape They said "Enter the ultimate contest If you’re as gorgeous as you seem" They said "Please please please please Be our American dream." But late that night beneath the grieving moon There’s a dazzling sight in my motel room For a grunting judge with his bulging eyes I give my all for his cherished prize Oh why oh why? I’m Miss America Crying on TV Silver clad in satin rags But everything’s where it should be Oh say can you see ah say can you see After they showed me the game ball They told me put on weight They told me I’d be powerful They told me I’d be great And my Uncle Sam he would coach me His helmet on my head And They said "Please please please please Please win and beat the spread But the new game plan that the owners had made Meant that win or lose there would be a trade For the team’s become a real gold mine And the kid’s sold off for the bottom line Oh why oh why? Mr. America sweating on TV The winners joy from the battered boy For everything’s where it should be Oh say can you see ah say can you see At last we’ve come together Call it marriage or civil war If it brings us to battle babe It must be worth our fighting for Though today came up cloudy There will be other days They said "Please please please please What else is there to say?" But in a plywood spread by a plastic stream And in separate beds with a borrowed dream And with questions wide and the silence deep We take two pills so at last we’ll sleep Oh why oh why? Mr. and Mrs. America Our story’s on TV Can you hear canned laughter For everything’s where it should be Oh say can you see ah say can you see. Well my little boy he told me something Just the other night He whispered it as I kissed him Before I turned out the light And of course he said it simple As only children can He said "Daddy daddy daddy please I’m ready to dream again"

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La chanson évoque le parcours d’une jeune femme qui rêve de devenir une icône de beauté et de succès, mais qui se rend vite compte que ce monde est truffé de désillusion et de pression. Malgré les promesses de gloire et de pouvoir, elle se trouve piégée dans un système cruel où son identité est réduite à un objet de désir. De ses aspirations à ses déceptions, le récit illustre la lutte entre le rêve américain et la réalité, à travers des métaphores sur la compétition et la marchandisation des individus. Le contexte de la chanson met en lumière des thèmes comme les attentes sociétales, la quête de validation et la solitude cachée derrière les apparences. Elle aborde également des questions récurrentes sur la famille et le passage à l’âge adulte, ce qui en fait un reflet poignant des luttes personnelles et des relations à l’intérieur de la société moderne.

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