The Dream is Dead, Long Live the Dream

I said that I'd be married by the age of 23

but now I'm pushing 30 and still single as can be.

I said I'd leave this city, but I'm stranded here instead

and the dreams I set before me are just feeling pretty dead.

 

But long live the dream.

I used to see the clouded skies and think about the rain.

I'd think about the floods that'd come but not what still remained.

I'd curse the sorrows pushed on me like I'm the only one

but between the drops of rain I still can feel the sun

So feel the sun,

feel it shine.

Just be here now,

outside the mind.

Nothing behind us,

nothing ahead.

It's all around us,

the dream is dead.

The dream is dead. 

Long live the dream.

Forget the loss and gain and what remained, and everything in between.

That dream is dead.

Long live the dream.

Long live the moment that we're present in cause that is the dream.

Long live this dream.

It's scary getting out there, pushing hard against the grain.

It's brutal staying neutral and not giving into pain.

Memories are liars of a time that's dead and gone;

It's only in the moment where you cease to be the pawn.

 

so long live this dream.

To keep the keel colliding with the ocean waves below

gotta keep the motor running hard and never let it slow.

Practice makes it perfect, but perfect's just a lie.

To move into the present means the past will have to die.

So let it die,

so you may rise.

Just be here now

and be so high.

Nothing behind us,

nothing ahead.

It's all around us,

the dream is dead.

The dream is dead.

Long live the dream.

Forget the loss and gain and what remained, and everything in between.

That dream is dead.

Long live the dream.

Long live the moment that we're present in cause that is the dream.

Long live this dream

Expectations torture us,

the future takes more from us

and thinking on the past steals from today.

 

So let's be here, victorious.

Take a second, it's glorious.

Let's see what life is like outside the fray.   

The dream is dead. 

 

The dream is dead.

Long live the dream.

Forget the loss and gain and what remained, and everything in between.

That dream is dead.

Long live the dream.

Long live the dream.

 

Long live this dream.