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Dan Fogelberg Lyrics for Song: Faces of America
 Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Dan Fogelberg
 
 
 
 25935>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
 
 
 
 I had a family and friends, oh 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 do they go, where did they go
 
 
 
 I was born on a farm, a mid-western farm
 
 I rode on the tractor with my dad
 
 And though we never had much it was always enough
 
 And we made the best with what we had
 
 
 
 But then came four years of drought and the bottom dropped out
 
 My father was broken like the rest
 
 And 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 know
 
 Someplace I used to know
 
 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 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 have changed
 
 How much their hearts have changed
 
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