American Dreams

It feels like American dreams caught on fire

We're tearing down the white picket fences

A soldier bleeds and a soldier dies

Have you ever thought that war was a sickness?

I'm a son of it, fucked up from it

Casualty of my family 'cause of it

We dare to dream or live to die

Reunited by the truth at the right time

Something's wrong here or so it seems

'Cause I'm not sleeping in American dreams

American lies

We're trying to see through the smoke in our eyes

So give me the truth

Don't tell me your lies

'Cause it's harder to breathe

When you're buried alive

By American dreams

With every bullet hole there's a blood stain

Another family that's struggling to keep sane

'Cause their neighborhood ain't a safe place

Got us all wearing black every Sunday

And I'm growing numb to the violence

Sing along to the sound of the sirens

We're trying to keep ourselves alive

But it's hard to get by when it feels like

Something's wrong here or so it seems

'Cause I'm not sleeping in American dreams

American lies

We're trying to see through the smoke in our eyes

So give me the truth

Don't tell me your lies

'Cause it's harder to breathe

When you're buried alive

By American dreams

'Cause I'm not sleeping in American dreams

American lies

We're trying to see through the smoke in our eyes

So give me the truth

Don't tell me your lies

'Cause it's harder to breathe

When you're buried alive

By American dreams

By American dreams