Will Hoge - My American Dream lyrics

This used to be a one-horse town but the pony went away Ended up in China 'cause they make it cheaper there, they say The store fronts all are empty and the factory is dead And these streets I used to walk on, well now they're just my bed And I'm goin' down, down, down I'm goin' down Did a couple years of college but I just couldn’t make it stick Had to come back here and help Mama 'cause Daddy left when she got sick She worked very day for nothin' until she turned sixty-two And on the same day that I buried her the bank foreclosed on her house too That's my American dream and I've been all that I can be With nothin' left to lose at all, I guess I'm free That's my American dream, dream, dream That's my American dream Now I stand here at this off-ramp and smile as best I can With a sign that says "Jesus loves you" but it's hard to think he gives a damn When they roll down their windows and put some spare change in my hand But I'd give it all right back to just be looked at like a man And I'm goin' down, down, down I'm goin' down When it's cold I try the mission; on nights like this I sleep outside Under a bridge beside the interstate where I can hear those trucks roll by And imagine I'm inside one, just rollin' down the road But I wake up just to realize that this place is now my home That's my American dream and I've been all that I can be With nothin' left to lose at all, I guess I'm free That's my American dream – it disappeared in front of me With nothin' left to lose at all, I guess I'm free That's my American dream, dream, dream It's my American dream