2025 Competition Entry:

American Dream by The Whimsical Glimpse Band

Genre

Rock

Website

Co-writer(s)

yes

Performer(s)

Michael: Guitars, Bass, co-writer, Recording and Arranging

Joseph: Drums and percussion, co-writer, Arranging

Description

This is a song highlighting the dangers of corruption and/or “faulty” leadership, It’s kind of a protest song with a sixties flair, but for the current era.

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Lyrics

American Dream (performance lyrics edited for time)

You got to wake up, Shake it up,
It’s time to come alive!
We’re losing our American dream!
You got to wake up, shake it up,
It’s time to come alive,
We’re losing our American dream!

Frustration and aggravation;
Runs so deep, it makes me weep!
We’re running into walls,
We’re taking the falls,
So deep in my bones;
And invading my sleep!
I tried to take it to the street,
Tried to hook it to a beat,
But no one wants to hear,
They’re all living in fear.
Walking with a fixed gaze
In a thick haze,
Enduring existence in an endless maze.
We watch our freedoms fade away, never to return
Now it’s time to scream,
Split the seams
Before we all get burned!

You got to wake up, Shake it up,
It’s time to come alive!
We’re losing our American dream!
You got to wake up, shake it up,
It’s time to come alive,
We’re losing our American dream!

Answer the call!
Be the one with the balls!
Don’t let the news or television blind you.
The news you need isn’t on the street,
To get a grip you got to search complete.
It’s not on the tube,
Or that stereo box,
You got to take a few knocks,
Look under rocks.
Get your act together and search deep in the ‘net;
Sometimes the fringe is where it’s at!
Don’t hide your face,
Don’t fear “commander-in-chief,”
This is the land of the free
And the home of the brave!
Now we got to bust outta here to keep it that way,
And the illuminated ones will fade away!

You got to wake up, Shake it up,
It’s time to come alive!
We’re losing our American dream!
You got to wake up, shake it up,
It’s time to come alive,
We’re losing our American dream!

(Lead section)

Sometimes you can’t trust what you see;
You just can’t trust your senses,
And sitting on your ass in that rockin’ chair
Won’t mend broken fences.
And you’ll be defenseless
When the shit hits the fan;
There won’t be a free man left standing!
It’s all a part
Of the big deception!
A total insurrection!
A deadly infection!
Spreading from the wounds in the District of C!
There’s no antidote,
You’re not going to feel it;
To kill the deadly threat
You just gotta impeach it!

You got to wake up, Shake it up,
It’s time to come alive!
We’re losing our American dream!
You got to wake up, shake it up,
It’s time to come alive,
We’re losing our American dream!
We’re losing our American dream!
We’re losing our American dream!
We’re losing our American dream.

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