Somebody's Dream

There's a burned out farmhouse down the road
 Barns fallin' in and the field's overgrown
 "Keep Outside" on the broken fence
 Passers-by say, "What a mess"
 It don't cross their mind that not long ago
 That was somebody's dream, somebody's hope
 Somebody's world gone up in smoke
 Ain't life a twistin', turnin', changin' machine
 They had big plans, they had no doubts
 But then the bottom fell out
 It fell apart at the seams
 But you wouldn't know that used to be somebody's dream.
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 He's seventeen, his thumb's in the air
 Runnin' away to God-knows-where
 No one wants to pick him up
 All they see's a no good punk.
 With torn up clothes, the cigarette and the hair
 Oh but that's somebody's dream, somebody's hope
 Somebody's world gone up in smoke
 Ain't life a twistin', turnin', changin' machine
 His folks, had plans, they had no doubts
 They had his future figured out
 Guess he just figured differently
 And maybe you got room in your back seat
 for somebody's dream.
 A girl walks into a pawn shop to sell a weddin' ring
 Says, "Since he left me, man, I just don't need a thing"
 She's thinkin' about what happened, thinkin' what went wrong
 Man across the counters thinkin' what price tag he'll put on.
 That was somebody's dream, somebody's hope
 Somebody's world gone up in smoke
 Ain't life a twistin', turnin', changin' machine
 She had big plans, she had no doubts
 She had it all figured out
 Guess he figured differently
 Ah, but still she knows someday she'll be somebody's dream.
 Somebody's dream, somebody's dream
 Somebody's dream (somebody's dream.)...