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This song deals with money, power, and other temptations the world can throw at you. The singer is proclaiming that he doesn’t want to waste his life looking for riches, nice things, power, love, or anything else. What he wants to do is follow God’s plan for him. Many of Switchfoot’s songs follow th...
[Intro]
Alright
[Verse 1]
When success is equated with excess
The ambition for excess wrecks us
As top of the mind becomes the bottom line
When success is equated with excess
If your time ain't been nothing but money
I start to feel really bad for you, honey
Maybe honey, put your money where your mouth's been running
If your time ain't been nothing but money
[Pre-Chorus]
I want out of this machine
It doesn't feel like freedom
[Chorus]
This ain't my American dream
I wanna live and die for bigger things
I'm tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream
[Verse 2]
When success is equated with excess
When you're fighting for the Beamer, the Lexus
As the heart and the soul breath in the company goals
When success is equated with excess
I want out of this machine
It doesn't feel like freedom
[Chorus]
This ain't my American dream
I wanna live and die for bigger things
I'm tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream
[Bridge]
'Cause baby's always talkin' 'bout a ring
And talk has always been the cheapest thing
Is it true would you do what I want you to
If I show up with the right amount of bling?
Like a puppet on a monetary string
Maybe we've been caught singin'
Red, white, blue, and green
But that ain't my America
That ain't my American dream
[Chorus]
This ain't my American dream
(That ain't my American dream)
I wanna live and die for bigger things
(I wanna live and die for bigger things)
I'm tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream
American Dream was written by Jon Foreman.
American Dream was produced by Switchfoot & John Fields & Steve Lillywhite & Tim Palmer.
Switchfoot released American Dream on Tue Dec 26 2006.
I am proud to be an American. Proud of my grandfather who was shot down in world war two. Proud of some of my best friends who are in the Marines. I believe in a nation that is serving a higher calling than a TV. I have nothing against the material world. I have nothing against consumerism as a soci...