Jim's Note: I bought a copy of ADBUSTERS magazine (March/April 2003, #46) and read an article which said in part: "One day, a man decides not to go to his well-paying job. Instead, he goes to a nearby bank and robs it. He does this not to get some easy cash – the usual motive – but to get himself locked up, which he quickly succeeds in doing. In fact, the police station is just across the street. The man does this, because he has become suicidally desperate to sever himself from his middle-class existence, all of which seems pretty strange given that his life seems suspiciously akin to the American dream. Interviewed in prison, the man reports that he feels a whole lot better, and he sounds pretty convincing too."
Well, how could I not see the possibilities of a song in that story. This song is the result.

AdBusters

American Dream
© 2003, Jim Lesses. All Rights Reserved
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Man walks into a down town store,
Waving a gun; people fall to the floor.
Fills up his bag, then he waits for the cops,
Today is the day the rat race stops.

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