Cruisin' down the boulevard where

Chrome was king in the street lights

Where dreams came true every Saturday night

Turning on the radio the nights just came alive

And we thought that life was just to drive



I want, I want to see the day

When we hold to our dreams

Not throw them all away

Once when we were young

We thought our dreams could be real

We packed them into American steel

Life was like a movie then but it was so damn real

We had a fire in our hearts an American steel



Rolling past the boneyard full of memories covered in dust

Forgotten relics that have all been left to rust

Found someone's old '57 someone's dream got thrown away

It makes me burn to see it here today



I want, I want to see the day

When we hold to our dreams

Not throw them all away

Once when we were young

We thought our dreams could be real

We packed them into American steel

Life was like a movie then but it was so damn real

We had a fire in our hearts an American steel



One look in the mirror to comb my hair

Turn the key and I don't care

About anything but miles and miles of road

I know I can't feel this way forever

But here and now I got it together

I got a fire in my heart and American steel

Don't you have any memories that you could never throw away

Something that makes you what you are today

I'm rolling past the graveyard of American dreams

Left to just fall apart at the seams



I want, I want to see the day

When we hold to our dreams

Not throw them all away

Once when we were young

We thought our dreams could be real

We packed them into American steel

Life was like a movie then but it was so damn real

We had a fire in our hearts an American steel