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{{Infobox song
{{Infobox song
| Name = Patriot's Heart
| Name = Job To Do
| Cover = AMC-LoveSongs.jpg
| Cover = AMC-LoveSongs.jpg
| Caption = ''Love Songs For Patriots'' cover
| Caption = ''Love Songs For Patriots'' cover
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| Released = 2004
| Released = 2004
| Format = LP / CD
| Format = LP / CD
| Length = 6:01
| Length = 5:04
| Label = [[Merge Records]] (US) / [[Cooking Vinyl]] (UK) / [[Devil In The Woods]] (UK LP)
| Label = [[Merge Records]] (US) / [[Cooking Vinyl]] (UK) / [[Devil In The Woods]] (UK LP)
| Writer = [[Mark Eitzel]]
| Writer = [[Mark Eitzel]]
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# "[[Ladies And Gentlemen]]"
# "[[Ladies And Gentlemen]]"
# "[[Another Morning]]"
# "[[Another Morning]]"
# '''"Patriot's Heart"'''
# "[[Patriot's Heart]]"
# "[[Love Is]]"
# "[[Love Is]]"
# "[[Job To Do]]"
# '''"Job To Do"'''
# "[[Only Love Can Set You Free]]"
# "[[Only Love Can Set You Free]]"
# "[[Mantovani The Mind Reader]]"
# "[[Mantovani The Mind Reader]]"
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}}


'''"Patriot's Heart"''' is the 3rd song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s 8th album, 2004’s ''[[Love Songs For Patriots]]''.
'''"Job To Do"''' is the 5th song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s 8th album, 2004’s ''[[Love Songs For Patriots]]''.


==Lyrics==
==Lyrics==
If you wanna see something patriotic, there's a stripper<br>
I cross the street to avoid her
He don't look that good, but he's got an all-American smile<br>
No, I can't live with her eyes
that fills his underwear with all the lonely dollars<br>
Would it stain my hands to touch her?
from all the lonely men who no one suffers<br>
Would her smile take me the way gravity takes the sky?
who wait around this bar and spend all their lonely hours<br>
Maybe some were born to run, maybe some were to born to smile on you
they're already gone - no one's running for cover<br>
the farther you run away, the more you have to hide in the dark<br>
white as the worm that crawls in the patriot's heart


It is so red, white and blue the way he works the bar<br>
Everyone has a job to do
selling his embraces like Mr. President or a fallen star<br>
Everyone has a job to do
he don't care babe if you're worldly or wise<br>
he's just looking for men with sins in their eyes<br>
and he always says the same thing, he says,<br>
"So, how you doin', baby? I'm your rod and your staff<br>
and for a tip, you can touch me.<br>
And after a few tequilas, I become something holy.<br>
And this crappy little bar with its sweating mirrors<br>
and its mildewed ceiling are more full of love,<br>
yeah, then even natural selection. And dollar for dollar, babe,<br>
it's a better bargain. The more you pay,<br>
the more I can break you all apart."<br>
And dollars pour like ashes from the patriot's heart.


Now he knows that your good time will kill him,<br>
I see her everyday - she has a silver lining that I can't shake
but the thought of getting old, no it does not thrill him<br>
She's like something I threw away
He says, "Give me all your money and don't tell me what you're thinking.<br>
A voice in a dream that says, "Oh love, come awake,"
I'm the past you wasted, I'm the future you're obliterating."<br>
Some wanna show you were the light is
Oh, come on grandpa! Remind me what we're celebrating -<br>
Some only wanna stare at the view
that your heart finally dried up or that it finally stopped working?<br>
And how you make a dead man cum?<br>
You learned the undertaker's art and make 'em shine<br>
like the alcohol that preserves the patriot's heart.


We all want a patriot's heart<br>
Everyone has a job to do
Give me your patriot's heart
Everyone has a job to do


You can see him fade with the dawn in a pile of Washingtons<br>
I know God is on my side
His head is in a spin, he's happy to pass out again<br>
He's a prisoner who stares,
He would rather fade into the static than hear the violins<br>
who stares out of my eyes
that whine like old lovers who whine that they loved him<br>
and the prisoner, He don't care
He would rather laugh alone in the dark with the soft hands of heaven<br>
He don't care
because they leave him alone with his entertainment system<br>
Some need walls to be happy and
He does it for the money but he gives more than he's given<br>
some need to make the horizon blue
He does it for the money but he gives more than he's given<br>
and it's only when he's naked that he feels his heart<br>
in the whorehouse desert of the patriot's heart.


We all want a patriot's heart<br>
Everyone has a job to do
We all want a patriot's heart
Everyone has a job to do


==Video==
==Video==
Mark Eitzel performing "Patriot's Heart" on February 28, 2009 in San Francisco, CA, USA.
<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdttZ8E-NCs</embedvideo>


== Personnel ==
== Personnel ==
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==Also appears on==
==Also appears on==
* ''[[Ladies And Gentlemen]]'' promo
* ''[[Demos Before Love Songs]]'' <small>Demo</small>
* ''[[Demos Before Love Songs]]'' <small>2 demo versions</small>
* ''[[A Toast To You]]'' <small>Live version</small>
* ''[https://www.discogs.com/Various-Comes-With-A-Smile-Vol-12-Meanwhile-In-The-Meantime/release/598276 Comes With A Smile, Vol. 12: Meanwhile, In The Meantime] <small>Live solo acoustic version</small>
* ''[[The Konk Sessions]]'' <small>Live version</small>


==References==
==References==
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