So American

If vain was a color to paint in you

Your heart would be the color blue

Be a gradient from there

Until your body met your hair

Which remained a silver

You are the one they call Jesus Christ

Who didn't know no rock and roll

Just a mission made of guns that they give boys in Vietnam

In a heart that always told you

There's a madness in us all

There's a madness in us all

So

Who wrote the rules?

Who wrote the rules?

Who wrote the rules?

They said

Every one of you will never try to lend a hand

When the police men don't understand

Boys, all you boys

Think you're so American

Girls, all you girls

Yeah you're so American

He may not be born of this land

But he was born of this world

He was born of all the mothers

And the colors of our brothers

And the love that was started

You are the one they call Jesus Christ

Who may not know no rock and roll

There may not be a heaven

Or a place in which to send ya

But you know in the end

There's a madness in us all

There's a madness in us all

There's a madness in us all

There's a madness in us all

So

Who wrote the rules?

Who wrote the rules?

Who wrote the rules?

They say

Every one of you will never try to lend a hand

When the police men don't understand

Boys, all you boys

Think it's so American

Girls, all you girls

Yeah you're so American

There's two eyes for every one of us

But somebody got there first and took them all

There's two eyes for every one of us

But somebody got there first and took them all

Man, oh man

You think it's so American

Man, oh man

Yeah you're so American

Man, oh man

You think it's so American

Man, oh man

Yeah you're so American

There's two eyes for every one of us

But somebody got there first and took them all

There's two eyes for every one of us

But somebody got there first and took them all