you re sitting on a milk crate mornin noon and night fantisizin the american dream you re lookin pretty good and you ve got yourself convinced that the nightmare isn t as bad as it seems you try your best to hide yourself beneath your turned up collar and a plastic bag is all you ve got to show and your books inside your shopping cart is probably the best education you re ever gonna know the guy in the mercedes is just hollered with the dollar better grab it cause the signal s turnin green and while you re at it put the jug behind the picket fence cause the cop that s drivin by sho looking mean institution contribution restitution destitution doesn t mean a thing to you now you re the freeway feature for your audience are driving by so maybe you should stand and take a bow you re living in desperation and you never have felt complete you live in anticipation of another day on the street sing with me you re sitting in the same spot you want to go home but there ain t no home but home on the range you ve forgotten what you look like and it looks like you ve forgotten that the look inside your eye is very strange ain t nothing left to hide you re stripped of all your pride and all you feel inside is a hole a mile wide you re the freedom desperado and the perfect living model of a land that hasn t any good excuse you re living in desperation and you never have felt complete you live in anticipation of another day on the street sing with me  sittin on your milkcrate blanket wrapped around you i see you sitting day after day i really like to talk but i know if i approached you you d probably get up and walk away you re wishin that your home of the american dream wasn t only smoke and exhaust i love you desperado and all i gotta say you let me know how much i really lost you re living in desperation and you never have felt complete you live in anticipation of another day on the street sing with me you re living in desperation and you never have felt complete you live in anticipation of another day on the street sing with me 