Faces Of America Lyrics - Fogelberg Dan

There was a time 

A simpler time 

When a man could be sure of where he stood 

I used to work at the yard 

Working honest and hard 

The hours were long but the pay was good 

I had a family and friends 

So many friends 

We'd drive to the lake on holidays 

Back then it wasn't so dear 

For a sandwich or beer 

At night I still dream I can see their faces 

Certain things that you depend upon 

There are places that you know 

And the faces of America 

Oh, where did they go? 

Where did they go? 

I was born on a farm 

A midwestern farm 

I rode on the tractor with my dad 

And though we never had much 

It was always enough 

And we made the best of what we had 

Then came four years of drought 

And the bottom dropped out 

My father was broken like the rest 

I can still see his hands 

Signing over his lands 

And the bankers grow fat on the flesh 

of the dispossessed 

Certain things that you depend upon 

There are places I can go 

I sift the ashes of America 

For someplace I used to 

(someplace I used to) 

Someplace I used to 

(someplace I used to) 

Someplace I used to know 

There was a time 

A simpler time 

When a man could be sure of where he stood 

I used to work at the yard 

Working honest and hard 

The hours were long but the pay was oh 

so good 

Certain things that you depend upon 

I used to think were guaranteed 

Like the right of every man to work 

And feed his family 

And feed his family 

And the faces of America 

Seem so distant and estranged 

Have their eyes become too blind to see 

How much their hearts have changed? 

(how much their hearts) 

How much their hearts have changed? 

(how much their hearts) 

How much their hearts have changed?