There's a burned out farmhouse down the road
Barn's falling in and the fields overgrown
"Keep Outside" on the broken fence
Passers by say, "What a mess"
It don't cross their mind that not long ago

That was somebody's dream, somebody's hope
Somebody's world gone up in smoke
Ain't life a twisting, turning, changing machine?
They had big plans, they had no doubts
But then the bottom fell out, it fell apart at the seems
But you wouldn't know that used to be somebody's dream

He's 17, his thumbs in the air
Running away to God knows where
No one wants to pick him up
All they see is a no good punk with torn up clothes, the cigarette and the hair

Oh, but that's somebody's dream, somebody's hope
Somebody's world gone up in smoke
Ain't life a twisting, turning, changing machine?
His folks had plans, they had no doubts
They had his future figured out
Guess, he just figured differently
Maybe you got room in your back seat for somebody's dream

A girl walks into a pawn shop to sell a wedding ring
Says "Since he left me, man, I just don't need a thing"
She's thinking about what happened, thinking what went wrong
Man across the counters thinking: what price tag he'll put on

That was somebody's dream, somebody's hope
Somebody's world gone up in smoke
Ain't life a twisting, turning, changing machine?
She had big plans, she had no doubts
She had it all figured out
Guess, he figured differently
Ah, but still she knows someday she'll be somebody's dream

Somebody's dream
Somebody's dream
Somebody's dream