I used to see you
  on every T.V.
  Your smiling face
  looked back at me.
  I used to see you
  on every T.V.
  Your smiling face
  looked back at me.
  Then they caught you
  with the girl next door,
  People's money
  piled on the floor,
  Accusations
  that you try to deny,
  Revelations
  and rumors begin to fly.
  
  Now you think about
  reaching out
  Maybe get some help
  from above.
  Now you think about
  reaching out
  Maybe get some help
  from above.
  Reporters crowd around
  your house.
  Going through your garbage
  like a pack of hounds,
  Speculating what they
  may find out,
  It don't matter now,
  you're all washed up.
  
  You wake up in the middle
  of the night.
  Your sheets are wet
  and your face is white,
  You tried to make
  a good thing last,
  How could something so good,
  go bad, so fast?
  
  American dream, American dream
  American dream, American dream.
  
  Don't know when
  things went wrong,
  Might have been when you
  were young and strong.
  Don't know when
  things went wrong,
  Might have been when you
  were young and strong.
  Reporters crowd around
  your house.
  Going through your garbage
  like a pack of hounds,
  Speculating what they
  may find out,
  It don't matter now,
  you're all washed up.
  
  Don't know when
  things went wrong,
  Might have been when you
  were young and strong.
  American dream, American dream.
  Don't know when
  things went wrong,
  Might have been when you
  were young and strong.
  American dream, American dream.