American Dream

I lit the fire, poured out the bottle
 Asked the moonlight what it might have seen
 If it answered, I can't remember
 I fell down into the American Dream
 Been too long in the Devil's workshop
 So I'm driving the backbone to change the scenery
 Here come the horses through purgatory
 They fell down into the American Dream
 Summer time sunshine, shine on me
 Show me where I'm going
 I'll find an old friend in El Dorado
 Like Harry Dean Stanton on a drive-in screen
 A tumbleweed blowing through Paris, Texas
 He fell down into the American Dream
 Sun-bleached dresses wavin' from a clothesline
 Come Saturday evening, they'll have a place to be
 I'll pick some flowers to take to her Mama
 I fell down into the American Dream
 Summer time sunshine, shine on me
 Won't you show me where I'm goin'?
 Leaving San Francisco for New Orleans
 I can hear that rooster crowin'
 Spit and polish the ancient story
 Love and glory, gold and greed
 Nothing changes, even if it wants to
 We go down into the American Dream
 We go down, baby
 On down to New Orleans
 Down, baby
 Only finding what it means