i think this song is about how the american dream was to have this perfect little quaint house, with a perfect little yard, and a perfect family, and all these "perfect" things that would make one "happy" but americans got obbsessed with money and making it, so they sacrificed "perfect happiness" for money, and this song shows how pointless it is to do that because those things don't matter as he demonstrates by saying that the factories that were once made to make someone rich and now they are abandoned because people found out that money and riches won't make you happy. this song pretty much just shows how the american dream is broken.
i think this song is about how the american dream was to have this perfect little quaint house, with a perfect little yard, and a perfect family, and all these "perfect" things that would make one "happy" but americans got obbsessed with money and making it, so they sacrificed "perfect happiness" for money, and this song shows how pointless it is to do that because those things don't matter as he demonstrates by saying that the factories that were once made to make someone rich and now they are abandoned because people found out that money and riches won't make you happy. this song pretty much just shows how the american dream is broken.