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 of bigger and better things, but 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
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