Fading American Dream

Working hard from day to day now, I get a check that barely lasts
I'm just another no choice member in Uncle Sam's desperation class
Finding it hard to face my wife, new kid born out of shotgun life
20 years old and I love them both, see no sunshine in our skies

Silently we pray for turbulence to break
How much more financial stress can we all take?

Getting closer to our limit
We chase the penthouse from the basement
Our current rat race, we run to standstill
This is our fading American dream

The sands of time are running down as we slip further behind

Bleeding my family, they're stretched too
Eviction notes, what can I do?
20 years old, feel my life on hold
Yell at a school-taught God, oh why?

Silently we pray for turbulence to break
How much more financial stress can we all take?

Getting closer to our limit
We chase the penthouse from the basement
Our current rat race, we run to standstill
This is our fading American dream

Have we ever been above water?

Getting closer to our limit
We chase the penthouse from the basement
Our current rat race, we run to standstill
This is our fading American dream

I got no time now to go and cry now
Leave for a second job, don't want to go poor
I'm just searching for my dignity
This is our fading American dream