Faded jaded fallen cowboy star   Pawn shops itching for your old guitar   Where you've gone, it ain't nobody knows   The sequins have fallen from your clothes      Once you heard the Opry crowd applaud   Now you're hanging out at 4th and Broad   On the rain wet sidewalk, remembering the time   When coffee with a friend was still a dime      Chorus:   Everything's been sold American   The early times are finished and the want ads are all read   Everyone's been sold American   Been dreaming dreams in a rollaway bed      Writing down your memoirs on some window in the frost   Roulette eyes reflecting another morning lost   Hauled in by the metro for killing time and pain   With a singing brakeman screaming through your veins      You told me you were born so much higher than life   I saw the faded pictures of your children and your wife   Now they're fumbling through your wallet & they're trying to find your name   It's almost like they raised the price of fame      Repeat chorus (x2) and end.