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The American Dream

from This Place Is Not My Home by Blake Farha

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In New York City there’s a bright-eyed boy,
The ink on his diploma still wet.
His daddy pulled strings to obtain that piece
He was owed of The American Dream.
Six months later he signed his name,
Foreclosing on a family’s home.
The bank slammed the door and bolted the latch
On their piece of The American Dream.

And his eyes, they were dulled,
And his mind, it was pulled
In directions he never foresaw.
It’s an end-sum game
With avarice to blame.
The conclusion he was forced to draw:
Someone’s success is the
Failure of somebody else.

In Tifton, Georgia there’s a hardened mom
Working her hands to the bone
Stocking the shelves at that new Dollar Store
For her piece of The American Dream.
And six months later she’s hanging her head
in the welfare office downtown.
She swallowed her pride,
Now she’s waiting in line
For her piece of The American Dream.

Well her hands full of cracks
And that pain in her back
Were all she had to show for all she’s toiled.
And when her kids would ask
Why she was slugging from that flask,
She’d just smile and say the ending can’t be spoiled:
Someone’s success is the
Failure of somebody else.

We’ve all got our mountain to climb.
Someone’s success is the
Failure of somebody else.

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from This Place Is Not My Home, released May 24, 2018

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Blake Farha Berlin, Germany

Blake Farha is a native Texan singer/songwriter who has been playing and writing music for over 17 years.

Fueled by his transience, Blake’s vocal driven tunes are reflections of wanderlust, that ever elusive search for self, and the people he meets along the way. ... more

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