Discover the story of the song > American Music – Violent Femmes

The singer is asking if his friend likes American music and talks about his desire for his partner to hold him. He mentions doing drugs and feeling like he was born in the wrong era. He wants to take his partner to prom but nobody wants to go with him because they don't like the kind of music he likes. The singer concludes that he was born too late, his partner born too early, and that the ugly moon and lake remind him of himself when he thinks about American music.