An American boy learned the meaning of success
Make lots of money, buy the biggest and the best
Got to work hard to get ahead of the pack
Buy that house on the hill with a sports car in the back

So I finished business school, got my C.P.A.
Joined a Big Five firm, worked fourteen hours a day
The seeds of success are what I was sowing
Cash was rolling in, assets were growing

I always thought when I was a kid
If I only had what my parents did
I’ve got more than that, but still inside,
why am I not satisfied

I thought I knew my American dream
Tried to make it come true, my American Dream
All my life the dominant theme
Was to make more money, the American Dream

Now my wife is a stranger, we don’t talk much anymore
We just say hello as we pass in the door
I watch my kids grow up in a stack of snapshots
I don’t have much family time but look at all that I’ve got

I sacrificed so we could get ahead
‘I’ll put my family first,’ that’s what I always said
But was it really worth the cost
Look at everything I’ve lost

Got to find a new American dream
Time to review my American Dream
It’s never enough, it’s not what it seems
All my money can’t buy the American Dream

I found a new American dream
This is the true American dream
It’s not in the cash or material things
It’s in my daughter’s eyes, my American dream