Vacant lots and boarded up windows,
Garbage piled up at the curb,
There’s a bank foreclosure notice
Taped to a front door.
Who else is to blame
For your own short sighted thinking?
What you could afford
Was never enough,
You had to have more.
And now you’re facing
This new reality.
You’re learning lessons
That can only be taught
Through poverty.
Florida dreaming,
Easy money in the sunshine state.
Florida dreaming,
The life you’ve always wanted.
Million dollar,
High rise condominiums,
Look down over golf course greens,
While Henrietta Hughes
Begs the President for a home.
There’s no end in sight,
Just a tropical third world,
As if volume of wealth
Ever excused
Such abhorrent gluttony.
And now you’re facing
This new reality,
You’re learning lessons
That can only be taught
Through poverty.
Florida dreaming,
Easy money in the sunshine state,
Florida dreaming,
The life you’ve always wanted
Could be yours.