Quatro temas que ficaram fora do alinhamento do álbum High Hopes (editado em Janeiro), quatro variações/reinvenções sobre um imaginário made in USA tecido de nostalgia e realismo — eis a canção que empresta o título ao novo EP de Bruce Springsteen, American Beauty; seguem-se Mary Mary, Hurry Up Sundown e Hey Blue Eyes.
Everything in your shadow turns to vapor
You pierce my heart like it was paper
Radio's crackling with the headlines
Sun upon your shoulder, wind's in the phone line
American beauty will you be mine
Out on this highway counting white lines
I remember last summer drifting through our eyes
We're in the high grass, my finger in your hemline
Boot heels click clacking, honey, when you shine
All them blue skies, hair sweeps the southern pines
American beauty forever in time
Out on this highway counting white lines
Your hand cups your breast pledging your time
Things we carried, shining skylines
Falling sparrow, sky torn apart
Dark shining arrow, your kiss pierces my heart
American beauty forever mine
Out on this highway counting white lines