Thought I'd make a song for sad songs about how much America and life in America sucks. One of my favorite genres. Thought I'd start with one that has America right in the title and is self-explanatory.
>Winter In America - Gil Scott Heron
Here is a live version, I'll transcribe the introduction myself, you can look up the rest.
Intro:
>Thank you very much, for the last few years we've been doing a song that concerns the fact that the seasons have been affected recently. Don't seem to have Spring like you used to, or Summer, or Fall, it has been a season collectively of frozen aspirations, and frozen hopes. We'd like to a song for you about the season we are trying to get over. It's called: Winter in America.