My mother-in-law said to me, "write a song", so this is what came out. If radio hits are the musical equivalent of a sit-com, then "Dreams" is an epic movie. Just let the movie play in your head while listening. It was recorded as one 52 minute piece. After recording, I edited it into 5 sections. Dreams can be movies that play in your head while you sleep, but can also be wishes, hopes, and aspirations.
lyrics
When we're young, we dream when we grow up
We'll be a princess or a king
We dream anything - to act, to fly, to play, to sing
As we grow, our dreams ebb and flow
And life puts on us the squeeze
And no one hears our pleas - except the sky, the earth, the breeze...
(instrumental)
And so we go from day to day, just waiting for
Something to come, take us away to somewhere
A place away from things we don't understand
Where no dark cloud looms, replaced by peaceful blooms
Blue sky overhead
No more missiles, thorns or thistles covered in red
Pleading with the wind to take us away
Yet it just blows by and leaves us waiting for something here
Feeling that there's something so near, but is it hope or fear
That shades our feelings, that drives us onward, being alive?
See, with light the horizon glows, the rooster crows,
And darkness goes.
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