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A Canadian Living the American Dream
Words and Music by Matthew Campbell


Go to my lake
Sit on my dock
Read the Toronto Star
The suns overhead
just rolled out of bed
and it seems like we've gone to far

My farmers can't grow
My sailors can't fish
It snows in the month of May
I'm told what to think
No water to drink
The forests are on their way

And I feel like a Canadian living the American dream
And I don't like it at all

I've been to the east
And I've been to the west
I've been to the in-between
And one things the same
The people are kind
And feel like their not being seen

I care about me,
you care about you.
But it all works out the same.
We've all got a feel
Thats somethings not real
And we're not the ones to blame

And I feel like a Canadian living the American dream
And I don't like it at all
And I feel like, they're holding me down and I want to scream
And I don't like it all

Cause I wasn't born in the land of the free
But if you ask me thats just fine with me
My home looks just as fine from sea to shining sea

So thanks for the fun
Thanks for the laughs
Thanks for the REAL TV
But we've gotto go
There's a country to grow
And thats up to you and me
(Repeat Chorus)