There's a spider crawling   On the bathroom mirror   Right on top of my right eye   And I can't stop staring back   How did I get this way?   Take a big look at a living lie      Rags to rags and rust to rust   How do you stand when you've been crushed?   So rags to riches was a bust      Sometimes I dream about it   What it's like back home   The railroad tracks and the pussy willow   But I had to leave it   And I go back   Whenever my tired head hits the pillow      Rags to rags and rust to rust   How do you stand when you've been crushed   So rags to riches was a bust      Busted once again   But I'll show them one day   That I can buy and sell the world      And one day I'll come through   My American dream   But it won't mean a fuckin' thing      Rags to rags and rust to rust   How do you stand when you've been crushed?   So rags to rags and rust to rust   Don't let me go   Rags to rags and rust to rust   Don't let me go   Rags to rags and rust to rust   Don't let me go