American Nightmare
I'm waking up in a fluorescent
haze
Just another drone in the suburban
maze
The TV preacher's screaming 'bout the
end of days While I'm counting
all the pennies that I can't
save
They sold us the future in
a plastic bag
Taped to the pole with a
tattered flag
I'm spitting out the rhythm of
a social lag In a city
full of ghosts and a heavy
drag It's the American nightmare Static
in my head and it's going
nowhere Trading in my soul for
a bargain bin stare Is anybody
listening? Does anybody care?
Yeah, the dream turned cold Yeah,
the dream turned gray In the
American nightmare,
wasting away
Hey
Wasting away
The picket fence is burning in
the afternoon light Another headline riot
in the middle of the night
They're measuring the fallout while we're
losing the fight
And everyone's a hero when they're
wrong and they're right
I'm checking my reflection in a
cracked store glass
Watching all the golden years turning
into ash
I'm burning through the hours like
a lightning flash Waiting for the
ceiling of the
world to crash It's the American
nightmare Static in my head and
it's going nowhere Trading in my
soul for a bargain bin stare
Is anybody listening?
Does anybody care?
Yeah, the dream turned cold Yeah,
the dream turned gray In the
American nightmare,
wasting away
Oh, we're the fallout,
we're the debris
Locked in a cage and we're
calling it free Can't you see?
Can't you see?
It's a beautiful catastrophe
It's the American nightmare Static in
my head and it's going nowhere
Trading in my soul for a
bargain bin stare
Is anybody listening?
Does anybody care?
Yeah, the dream turned cold Yeah,
the dream turned gray In the
American nightmare,
wasting away
Wasting away
Wasting away
Oh, the dream is dead Leave
a note on the door I
don't wanna wake up here anymore
Woo