The Grip On the American Dream

Are there efforts so bleak? Grumbling stairways and windows that need paint Utility bills comes first and food for the meek That’s what they’ve become striving each day Mortgage rates hit there high Forcing families to leave there homes and stray Forecloses no longer a thing of the past Boarded up windows and signs on the laws Greedy banks handing out amounts so vast Now they tighten their grip on working folks First they part with their phone or cable TV Next they’ve lost their heat and their homes go up in smoke Now home fires are on the raise Unheated they put blankets over doors Caught on fire from the use of space heaters and there surprised It’s a domino effect didn’t anyone see How greed and keeping up with the Jones Made America be so in need