Neil Young Lyrics

Album: Unknown

American Dream Lyrics

I used to see you

 on every T.V. 

 Your smiling face

 looked back at me. 

 I used to see you

 on every T.V. 

 Your smiling face

 looked back at me. 

 Then they caught you

 with the girl next door, 

 People's money

 piled on the floor, 

 Accusations

 that you try to deny, 

 Revelations

 and rumors begin to fly. 

 

 Now you think about

 reaching out 

 Maybe get some help

 from above. 

 Now you think about

 reaching out 

 Maybe get some help

 from above. 

 Reporters crowd around

 your house. 

 Going through your garbage

 like a pack of hounds, 

 Speculating what they

 may find out, 

 It don't matter now,

 you're all washed up. 

 

 You wake up in the middle

 of the night. 

 Your sheets are wet

 and your face is white, 

 You tried to make

 a good thing last, 

 How could something so good,

 go bad, so fast? 

 

 American dream, American dream 

 American dream, American dream. 

 

 Don't know when

 things went wrong, 

 Might have been when you

 were young and strong. 

 Don't know when

 things went wrong, 

 Might have been when you

 were young and strong. 

 Reporters crowd around

 your house. 

 Going through your garbage

 like a pack of hounds, 

 Speculating what they

 may find out, 

 It don't matter now,

 you're all washed up. 

 

 Don't know when

 things went wrong, 

 Might have been when you

 were young and strong. 

 American dream, American dream. 

 Don't know when

 things went wrong, 

 Might have been when you

 were young and strong. 

 American dream, American dream.