When Our Dreams Have Died

Land of opportunity    
A chance to thrive    
A loving community  
That's full of drive    
Where dreams take shape    
And hard work pays  
Once America was great  
Unique in many ways  
Brother helping brother  
With a common goal  
Success of each other  
Is success of the whole  
Happiness and success    
At our fingertips  
But now nevertheless    
Our dreams have slipped  
Tears have moistened  
Our tear filled eyes  
We have been poisoned  
By the repeated lies  
Anger and rage  
Have filled our minds  
A war has been waged  
Destroying us by design  
Friends against friends  
If we don't think the same  
Our fingers extend  
As we place the blame  
With corporate greed  
We work to survive  
We bleed and bleed    
Just to barely get by  
We feed the machine  
That feeds on the grift  
We're caught in between    
This democracy shift  
Leaders with impunity    
Our hope fades away  
This land of opportunity    
Where dreams have decayed  
No longer do we live  
This is our last goodbye  
There's nothing left to give    
When our dreams have died