t's not the american dream
it's the american nightmare
nine to five, nine to five
every single day and every single night
total numbness
we've lost our will, we've lost our fight
what do we do when we come home?
we sit in front of our televisions
sitting in our beat up lazy-boys
yelling at our beat up wives
sipping on our ice cold beer
ranting about our boring lives
isn't this the american dream?
we hate our jobs, hate our bosses
we're just trying to survive
but all this responsibility is killing us
we're dead inside
and we want out but we're still
living in our double-wides
broke and decrepit on the inside
but ***** it, it's the american dream
let's take what they media says as gospel
because they couldn't ever be wrong
could they?
no, no they wouldn't lie to us
instead of finding our own right and wrong
we follow like pigs to the slaughter
we ignore what's going on in the rest of the world
we ignore what's going on inside everyone else
because they aren't us, we don't know them
they aren't our kids, our mothers, our fathers,
our brothers, our sisters, our cousins,
our friends..
so why should we care?
selfishness infects us like a plague
a hereditary disease
we are all so selfish
apathy is a slow growing tumor
strangling and numbing us from inside
but whatever!
go to your therapist, get some pills
and choke it down, like you choke down you own morality
mortality is a joke
this is america!
freedom never dies, so why should we?
i can go where i want, ***** who i please,
take what i want, ignore the rules set down
because they don't apply to me
so what if i step on some other people?
so what if i build my empire on the sweat of their backs?
it's the american dream!
do things for you, improve yourself
with our "i"Phones and our "self" helps
God bless america and no one else!
there are people who have fought for us
died for us, for our freedom
for the great land of the free
and the home of brave
but hey! let's leave them out on the streets to rot
because to us their ***** and worthless
we don't care.
"decadence can fill your holes
if it's tangible it will save your soul"
right? right? right?
that's what they teach us
we'll keep working nine to five
smoking, drinking, beating, dying
an angry mob of puppets
but who's pulling the strings?
so sit back on your lazy-boys, lazy boy
and pop open a cold beer
turn on the television
and drown for a few hours until you decide
to go ***** your wife
tell your kids to go to college, stay in school, say no to drugs
but you've been schooled because you thought you had it all
your drug is your own pleasure
you have nothing
you are nothing
until you decide to be something
and get out of this nightmare
start living a dream