American English

Here comes my one and only

Talking like a starlet on a Hollywood screen

She whispers something to me

I hear the words but I don't know what she means

Oh she speaks American English

Oh don't always understand

Though she speaks American English

Got the language of love

At her command

Love travels transatlantic

I'm hot and bothered by her figure of speech

Can't follow her semantics

But when her body moves it's clear to me

CHORUS

We don't need words

To express what is real

We've got each other

That says everything that we feel

There's too much damn confusion

With all this talking going round and round

We'll reach our own conclusion

We'll make connection on the common ground

CHORUS

She speaks American English

She speaks the language of love

She speaks American English

Anchors Aweigh (1989)

(Gold/Gouldman)

Eighteen

I'd never been far from home

A young lad seekin' destiny

This ship

With a hundred hands or more

To set sail on a stormy sea

I don't know how we can find our way

With only the stars in the sky

To be our guide

I was green inside

When I heard the captain calling

Anchors aweigh now

Anchors aweigh

We're underway now

Anchors aweigh

I've heard tales of boats that ran aground

Ghost ships dead in the sun

And of men bewitched by the siren's song

Those that died were the lucky ones

One wave can knock a man overboard

And in the name of the crown

A man could drown

I was feeling down

When I heard the captain calling

Anchors aweigh now

Anchors aweigh

We're underway now

Anchors aweigh