TOTALLY GEEKED!

LOLLLLLLLLLL, he is using Simon & Garfunkles' "They've all come to look for America"  His ideals are so opposite of the opportunity that the US was built on, that the song is about.  Hi ideals lose "America" Who is falling for that?  I can't post the commercial, but here is Wiki's write up of the making of the song.

Composition[edit]

"America" is a protest song that "creates a cinematic vista that tells of the singer's search for a literal and physical America that seems to have disappeared, along with the country’s beauty and ideals."^[5] Art Garfunkel once described the song as "young lovers with their adventure and optimism."^[6] The song has been described as a "folk song with a lilting soprano saxophone in its refrain as a small pipe organ paints acoustic guitars, framed by the ghostly traces of classic American Songbook pop structures."^[7] According toEMI Music Publishing's digital sheet music for the song, "America" is composed in the key of E-flat major and set in a 6/8 time signature, and has a moderately fast groove of 172beats per minute.^[8] The duo's vocals span from the low note of B♭₃ to the high note of F₅.^[8] Drummer Hal Blaine and keyboardist Larry Knechtel provide additional instrumentation on the track.^[9]

The song opens, on Bookends, with a crossfade from "Save the Life of My Child" (this effect is not present on single versions, which begin with a "clean" open). The song follows two young lovers — "an apparently impromptu romantic traveling alliance" — who set out "to look for America."^[10] The song makes reference to the town of Saginaw, Michigan, with the protagonist seemingly hailing from the town, but "[seeking] his fortunes elsewhere."^[11] The narrator's companion Kathy is a reference to Chitty, linking the song autobiographically to the earlier Simon and Garfunkel hit "Homeward Bound", ^[5] and to "Kathy's Song", a love song from a previous album, Sounds of Silence.

The narrator spends four days hitchhiking from Saginaw, Michigan to join Kathy in Pittsburgh, where together they board a Greyhound bus to continue the journey.^[9] The narrator begins with a lighthearted and optimistic outlook ("Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together") that fades over the course of the song. To pass time, he and Kathy play games and try to guess the backgrounds of their fellow passengers. Over the course of their journey, they smoke all of their cigarettes. Kathy reads a magazine before falling asleep, leaving the narrator awake to reflect on the meaning of the journey alone.^[9] In the final verse, the narrator is able to speak his true emotions to Kathy, now that she is sleeping and cannot hear or answer. "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why" captures the longing and angst of the 1960s in nine simple words. The narrator then stares out the window "counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike". So many other empty and aching and lost souls traveling down the highway, each on their own journey alone, even if someone is traveling with them. The soaring harmony lines and crashing cymbals create a powerful and poignant end to the song: They've all come to look for America. ^[10] Pete Fornatale interprets this lyric as a "metaphor to remind us all of the lost souls wandering the highways and byways of mid-sixties America, struggling to navigate the rapids of despair and hope, optimism and disillusionment."^[12]