Fading American Dream

[00:16.26] Working hard from day to day now, I get a check that barely lasts
[00:23.51] I'm just another no choice member in Uncle Sam's desperation class
[00:29.84] Finding it hard to face my wife, new kid born out of shotgun life
[00:35.22] Twenty years old and I love them both, see no sunshine in our skies
[00:41.57] Silently we pray for turbulence to break
[00:46.11] How much more financial stress can we all take?
[00:53.35] Getting closer to our limit
[00:56.08] We chase the penthouse from the basement
[00:59.63] Our current rat race, we run to stand still
[01:02.39] This is our fading American Dream
[01:05.05] Bad news coming in, these higher rent rates gouge us thin
[01:10.56] The sands of time are running down as we slip further behind
[01:17.71] Bleeding my family, they're stretched too
[01:20.48] Eviction notes, what can I do?
[01:23.17] Twenty years old, feel my life's on hold
[01:25.89] Yell at a school-taught God, oh why?
[01:29.41] Silently we pray for turbulence to break
[01:35.70] How much more financial stress can we all take?
[01:41.22] Getting closer to our limit
[01:43.99] We chase the penthouse from the basement
[01:47.56] Our current rat race, we run to stand still
[01:50.22] This is our fading American Dream
[01:53.83] Have we ever been above water?
[02:01.95] Do we ever see ourselves coming out of it alive?
[02:09.20] Getting closer to our limit
[02:25.41] We chase the penthouse from the basement
[02:28.14] Our current rat race, we run to stand still
[02:30.81] This is our fading American Dream
[02:33.64] I got no time no to go and cry now
[02:36.32] Leave for a second job, don't want to go poor
[02:39.98] I'm just searching for my dignity
[02:42.61] This is our fading American Dream
[02:46.23] This is our fading American Dream
[02:48.92] This is our fading American Dream
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