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American Dreams

from Trees by Josh Blake

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American Dreams was recorded at Echo Mountain Studios. Produced by Josh Blake, engineered and mixed by Julien Dryer and Josh Blake and mastered by Julien Dreyer. Other than Josh, this song features Pat Thomas on drums, Casey Cramer on guitar, Elijah Cramer on Bass, Frank Mapstone on the Rhodes and Moog Voyager, Carolyn Smith Cramer and Marisa Blake on vocals. Enjoy!

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I can see it in the way
People live their lives these days
A bunch of corporate funded slaves
With their lives wasting away
Because they never wonder why
They just keep walking with the blind
and feeding the Machine of
This American Dream

So don't
Sell me no more lies
It makes me want to cry
The way we pay the price
For the never ending greed
It's got me begging please
Dismantle this machine
Dismantle this machine

Everybody's got their special needs
Everybody thinks they're so unique
But everybody laugh everybody cries
Everybody's born, everybody dies

To be the man to get the raise
To get the yacht and the estate
To get the plastic wife to say
Honey everything's ok
But you can't deny the speed
How we spread like a disease
And keep feeding the machine
Of this american dream

So don't
Sell me no more lies
It makes me want to cry
The way we pay the price
For the never ending greed
It's got me begging please
Dismantle this machine
Dismantle this machine

Everybody's got their special needs
Everybody thinks they're so unique
But everybody laugh everybody cries
Everybody's born, everybody dies

You see we're all acting like fools
Because we've all become the tools
Just some puppets in a play
They way we give ourselves away
But there's one thing you can't buy
The way we choose to live our lives
We can stop feeding the machine
Of this American dream

So don't
Sell me no more lies
It makes me want to cry
The way we pay the price
For the never ending greed
It's got me begging please
Dismantle this machine
Dismantle this machine
Dismantle this Machine

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from Trees, track released June 1, 2013
American Dreams was recorded at Echo Mountain Studios. Produced by Josh Blake, engineered and mixed by Julien Dryer and Josh Blake and mastered by Julien Dryer. The musicians on this song are:

Josh Blake: Guitar and Vocals
Pat Thomas: Drums
Casey Cramer: Guitar
Elijah Cramer: Bass
Frank Mapstone on the Rhodes and Moog Voyager
Carolyn Smith Cramer: Vocals
Marisa Blake: Vocals

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Josh Blake Asheville, North Carolina

Josh Blake is a seasoned musician with over 25 years of experience. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Josh now calls Asheville, NC his home since setting roots there in 1997. As a performer, Josh has has played clubs, theatres and festivals coast to coast, sharing the stage with artists such as George Clinton, Eric Krasno, STS9, Kevin Kinney, and Mike Gordon to name a few. ... more

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