Standard (EADGBE)

 There's a home place under fire tonight in the Heartland

 And the bankers are taking my home and my land from me

 There's a big gapping hole in my chest now, where my heart was

  And a hole in the sky, where God used to be

 There's a home place under fire tonight in the Heartland

 There's a well where the water's so bitter nobody can't drink

 And no way to get high and my mouth is so dry that I can't talk

 Oh, they know that 'm dying why nobody crying for me

 My American dream, fell apart at the seams

 You tell me what it means, you tell me what it means

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 There's a home place under fire tonight in a Heartland

 and bankers are taking the homes and the land away

 There's a young boy closing his eyes tonight in a Heartland

 who will wake up a man with some land and a loan he can't pay

 His American dream, fell apart at the seams

 You tell me what it means, you tell me what it means.

(Repeated)

 There's a home place under fire tonight in a Heartland

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(Repeated four times)