The American people having derived their origin from many other nations, and the Declaration of National Independence being entirely based on the great principle of human equality, these facts demonstrate at once our disconnected position as regards any other nation; that we have, in reality, but little connection with the past history of any of ...
top 100 Â· top new Â· updates Â· submit lyrics. Blood red lips traced with a tongue they shine, Cut thought a crowded room. A look can say a lot sometimes. And so I take all my past attractions. And project on you. Every disappointment's and mistake, Some resentment from a one-night heartbreak.
The song's lyrics were written at Vahsen's, a Port Chester, New York bar, on August 8, 1970 during an impromptu poetry jam between Joplin and songwriter Bob Neuwirth. The lyrics were inspired by the first line of a song written by San Francisco beat poet Michael McClure, Come on, God, and buy me a Mercedes Benz..