Trying to Live the Dream

I see a happy couple smiling

A newborn baby crying

I'm all alone in this lover's paradise

I thought the streets were paved with gold

I miss the dirt roads of my home

All the ones I loved and the man I left behind

I walk the busy city streets where neon and lonely meet

I wonder if he knows he's the one that's on my mind

I left for bigger and better things, now it's not what it seems

I'm in a nightmare trying to live the dream

I'm in a nightmare trying to live the dream

My bags are packed by the door

Spent all night walking the floor

No sleep will come 'til I leave this town behind

I call the boy I left back home

But he don't pick up the phone

I doubt missing me ever crossed his mind

I walk the busy city streets where neon and lonely meet

I wonder if he knows he's the one that's on my mind

I left for bigger and better things, now it's not what it seems

I'm in a nightmare trying to live the dream

I'm in a nightmare trying to live the dream

Lord, I feel so far away

When the sun goes down, I pray

Maybe there'll be a little light on the other side

If he'd have me back to hold

If a dream could save my soul

But the only light is that neon barroom sign

I walk the busy city streets where neon and lonely meet

I wonder if he knows he's the one that's on my mind

I left for bigger and better things, now it's not what it seems

I'm in a nightmare trying to live the dream

I'm in a nightmare trying to live the dream

I'm in a nightmare trying to live the dream

I'm in a nightmare trying to live the dream