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2x

 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

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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

 Cause 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

 Cause 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