There's a burned out farmhouse down the road

Barn's fallin' in, field's over grown

Keep out sign on a 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 seams

And you wouldn't know that used to be somebody's dream He's seventeen his thumbs in the air

Running away to God knows where

And no one wants to pick him up, all they see's a no good punk

The tore up clothes, the cigarette, the hair Ah, 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

And maybe you got room in your backseat for somebody's dream A girl walks into a pawn shop to sell her wedding ring

Says, "Since he left, man it just don't mean a thing"

She's thinkin' about what happened, thinking what went wrong

The man across the counter's thinkin' what price tag he'll put on 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

Oh, but still she knows someday she'll be somebody's dream Somebody's dream, somebody's dream

Somebody's dream, somebody's dream