Song Description

How the American dream is mostly a sham

Lyrics

You may toil away to an early grave.
You may be taken with the effort you gave.
Your wealth may spill out in the acres before you.
The ones that were listening cannot ignore you.

Your path will be cobbled with the jewels you buy now.
Placed underfoot by the sweat of your brow.
Acres of diamonds will be ground for your feet.
The reward for your now is a chance incomplete.

The clarity is blinding; a distraction; a myth to ease the journey down.
Resistance only slows you when you just want to run.
But it?s so hard to run with

Acres of diamonds cutting your feet
And keeping you moving at a slower speed.
With your head always bowed not in thought or in grace
But in search for the diamonds still left in their place.

That someone else missed as they passed on through.
Or left behind to pacify you.
Keeping you moving at a slower speed and missing the forest for the trees.

When the time you have left is less than you need
To unburden yourself of what you must leave
The choices you had will be laid out before you.
The ones that were listening now must ignore you.

The ground that you walked on brings you to your knees
At the altar of time that you hope to appease.
The progress you strode for now hearing your case
Thanks you for your service of staying in place.