American Dreamer - Single
by The Home Life
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lyrics
Days go on and there's no sign of life out here in the country. I don't see the beauty anymore. The wind blows this way and that making the floorboards shift and crack. On and on it goes. This old house, this old hell-hole we call home is caving in. The walls are caving in. These old dreams, these old hopes we used to think when we were young and invincible. We used to be invincible.
This is no american dream.
Success isn't what it used to be.
This is no american dream.
We're not what we used to be.
So what? Is this just (where we) give up or will we rebuild? Start all over from nothing. We can make it something. Let's learn to swim before we drown in this ocean. Brick by broken brick, let's restore a nation!
What have we done? What have we done to ourselves? We used to be so great, but now we struggle to make ends meet. What do we believe in? Where do our loyalties lie? Where do we put our faith when God seems so far away? This is our home sweet home, but it's not so sweet anymore. Is this how we want to be remembered? A lost, and a broken, and a lazy, good-for-nothing generation that just stood there and watched as the world fell apart.
This is no american dream.
Success isn't what it used to be.
This is no american dream.
We're not what we used to be.
So what? Is this just (where we) give up or will we rebuild? Start all over from nothing. We can make it something. Let's learn to swim before we drown in this ocean. Brick by broken brick, let's restore a nation!
This is no american dream.
Success isn't what it used to be.
This is no american dream.
We're not what we used to be.
So what? Is this just (where we) give up or will we rebuild? Start all over from nothing. We can make it something. Let's learn to swim before we drown in this ocean. Brick by broken brick, let's restore a nation!
What have we done? What have we done to ourselves? We used to be so great, but now we struggle to make ends meet. What do we believe in? Where do our loyalties lie? Where do we put our faith when God seems so far away? This is our home sweet home, but it's not so sweet anymore. Is this how we want to be remembered? A lost, and a broken, and a lazy, good-for-nothing generation that just stood there and watched as the world fell apart.
This is no american dream.
Success isn't what it used to be.
This is no american dream.
We're not what we used to be.
So what? Is this just (where we) give up or will we rebuild? Start all over from nothing. We can make it something. Let's learn to swim before we drown in this ocean. Brick by broken brick, let's restore a nation!
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released January 5, 2012
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