Stuck Dreaming

Stuck dreaming, believing an American dream

Kept sedated so I won't realize

Given everything I need on a TV screen

So I won't even have to close my eyes

Stuck dreaming, believing that we're all free

And everything I see has got to be right

So sweat shop labor won't matter to me

As long as the sweat shops are kept out of sight

Stuck dreaming, believing what I want to believe

Believing I'm able to create an uprise

I'm free to do it whenever I please

Unless I'm so sedated that I don't realize

I'm stuck dreaming, in a cloudy land of bliss

Spending all my time on spending my time

Never noticing all the things I miss

Too busy just trying to try to survive

Stuck dreaming, that there's an easier way

I'll be saved by a last minute stroke of luck

Or by some salesman that I'll have to pay

Who was waiting, watching for me to get stuck

Dreaming, thinking that things would look up

Looking up to see faces staring down at me

Dividing and deciding if I'll make the cut

If I'm worth the time it takes to see

But I'm stuck dreaming of ways I might impress

The interested investors who will buy my time

Cause I don't use it, except to get washed and dressed

To show prospective buyers my goods are fine

But I'm stuck dreaming, that old American scheme

Thinking I can do anything that I please

But my plans aren't turning out how they seemed

And the more I try the more I feel diseased

I'm stuck in a dream

Or so it seems

But it's not mine

Is it yours

Why should I wait

At open gates

Getting irate

For an answer

Why do I stand

At a line in the sand

When I don't understand

Who drew it

Wait to be told

What I'll be sold

It's the same same old

But I'll buy it

It's all I can afford

And there'll be no more

Without our support

You better know it

So you can belong

Act like nothings wrong

Sing the same old song

And enjoy it