Changing horses
In the middle of a stream
Gets you wet
And sometimes cold
Changing faces
In the middle of a dream
Gets you old
Oh, gets you old
Looking farther
Than you'll ever hope to
see
Takes you places
You don't know
Search for someone
You can't ever hope to be
And still you go
Oh, still you go
Last night I dreamed
I was looking down
On the planet Earth
Spinning 'round and 'round
And as I cast
My gaze
about
I watched
Her lovely light go out
The light went out
And even though it was
Just a dream
It seemed as real
As it could seem
And often dreams
The truth forebodes
You got to get back children
On the holy road
Get back children
On the holy road
Love when you
can
Cry when you have to
Be who you must
That's a part of the plan
Await your arrival
With simple survival
And one day we'll all understand
One day we'll all understand
One day we'll all understand
There is no Eden
Or Heavenly gates
That you're gonna
Make it to one day
But all of the answers
You seek can be found
In the dreams
That you dream
On the way
A child in South
Ohio
A man in Northern Maine
He took his dream
To the end of the world
And he brought it home again
Here he met his sweet
Rebeckah
Here he came to make his stand
In a house he built
In the piney woods
Where the ocean meets the land
Now the dream is rising
In a moment it will be past
This breath is my first
It will all too soon be my last
And on a windy coast
I made several toasts
To you and me and the sea
And no one heard
You've climbed your way to the top
But lately it
seems
That there's a hole in the heart
Of the American dream
Sittin' pretty in your trophy room
With your shining souvenirs
That just remind you
Of the wasted time
And the lateness of the years
Is that all, is that all there is
Is that
all
There must be more than this
You with the past at your
back
And the future
unsure
Asked for the chance
To try love once more
Well aware of the consequences
Should the dream fall through
You threw down your last defenses
Wanting to try something new
Wanting to try something new
Every time it seems that
You have gained an
understanding
Those devils at your heels
Reach up and try to tip the scales
Waking from a dream it seems
It's all been done without you
And every vain attempt
To make you stay
Is destined to fail
I had a family and
friends
Oh so many friends
We'd drive to the lake
On holidays
Back then it wasn't so dear
For a sandwich or beer
At night I still dream
I can see their faces
Certain things
That you depend upon
There are places
That you know
And the faces of America
Oh, where do they
go
Where did they go
In the cities and
town
There are millions who
dream
But the traffic's so
lou
That you can't hear them scream
There's a heaven on earth
That so few ever find
Though the map's in your soul
And the road's in your mind
Putting on your face
Before the mirror on the wall
Dreaming that
The looking glass was me
Catching your fondest gazes
Living through your fickle
phases
I love you
And it's getting easier each
day
To weep about you
Harder every night
To sleep without you
How many years must I be
Driven by this dream
Of love with you
Freedom is near
But seems to elude you
Trying to change your dreams
Into what your needs allow
It should be easy by now
Why is love
Always the last to know
Falling back
On better days
Trying your damnedest
To laugh
You've thrown those
Childish dreams away
It's over, you
say
Still you ask
Why is love
Always the last to know
Sometimes in the night
I feel it
Near as my next breath
And yet untouchable
Silently the past
Comes stealing
Like the taste
Of some forbidden sweet
Along the walls
In shadowed rafters
Moving like a thought
Through haunted atmospheres
Muted cries
And echoed laughter
Banished dreams
That never sank in sleep
I take my place
Along the shore
And I wait for the tide
It seems I've passed
This way before
In an earlier time
To every man the mystery
Sings a different song
He fills his page of history
Dreams his dreams and is gone
The faster we run
The further away
The dreams that
We chase become
Lost in the sun
Spinning and
turning
Blind in the burning
Light of
day
We have to turn away
Children all married
Husband's passed on
Nothing but time on her hands
Most of her mornings
Are spent in her dreams
Or making her sad little plans
Maybe she'll go to the corner today
And pick up the new McCall's
If just to escape for an hour
From her windows and walls
Windows and walls
Windows and walls
Elusive as dreams
Barely remembered
In the morning
Love like a phantom flies
But held in the heart
It pales like
The empty smile adorning
A statue
with sightless eyes
There's so many things
You need to learn
That I can never
teach
And places
In your troubled soul
That I may never reach
So I wander
Like an ebbing tide
Along this lonely beach
And cast my dreams
Like stones into the sea
There's a cry
In the
oceans
It's plaintive and blue
And it rises
From the
depths
Breaks my heart in two
It's the
dreams
Of the great whales
Running aground
For they know
That they're eternity bound
For they know
That they're eternity bound
Mary Estelle Hanna
Came out from Louisiana
For the sun
A deal gone bad
In Dallas
Left her burned
and broken
On the run
To make the rent
And groceries
She takes this job
At three-fifteen an hour
Serving shots of whiskey
And tequila
In some smoky red-neck bar
And she dreams
Some day
She'll make her way to
L.A.
And become a movie star
I sing to your spirit
Where all my dreams dwell
The vision, the freedom
The life lived so well
And I sing in your canyons
And the echoes ring clear
And I wish somehow
You may still hear
Sold your dreams
For sweet salvation
Left with righteous
Indignation
Now it seems
That you face starvation
And nourishment
Doesn't come cheap
You better go back to sleep
Captured Angel
Aching to make your break
Your freedom's at stake
You better fly now
Fly now, fly now
While your wings
Are still young
Your cage door's
Been flung wide open
And I'm hoping you see
That there's a place
Beside me
If you ever need it
My mother
Was of Scottish
blood
It's there that
she was born
They brought her
To America in 1924
They left behind the highlands
And the heather-covered hills
And came to find America
With broad expectant dreams
And iron wills
Well they came from New York City
And they came from Alabam’
With their dreams of finding fortunes
In this wild unsettled land
Well some fell prey to hostile arrows
As they tried to cross the plains
And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains
With their hands froze to the reins
Nothing lasts
forever
I know that this is true
But I never knew how true it was
'Til I was losing you
Oh maybe I'm a dreamer
Or maybe I'm a fool
But I never thought that love
Could be this careless or this cruel
You wrestle with the reasons
But the reasons never rhyme
Or comfort when the heart
Is in decline
And it doesn't really matter
If it's chance or it's design
It's gonna to take some time
Magnolia, now I see
That freedom isn't free
And love's the only true redeemer
And when this journey's through
I'll be coming back for you
If you'll have this foolish dreamer
Oh, I wish that I was
In your arms a sleeping
Dreaming of the sweet love
We just made
But I’m runnin’ down
This mountain pass
At midnight
Wishin’ I was
In your arms again
If your dreams
Should wake you
Shaking in the night
She can touch your face
And take away all fright
Like a tree
In a meadow wind
She will bend
To take you in
Makes no difference
Where you've been
That's the way
She feels about you
That's the way
She feels about you
If you wake up screaming
Scared about
What you're dreaming
You know she is
there
She can share
You're aware
She cares about you
Now we've both known
Our share of failures before
We both drove
Our share of ships on the shore
We both know the cost
Of dreaming too hard, too high
Of dreaming too high
But now it seems
That every step
That we missed
Was just a trick of fate
To lead us to this
When we can share
The taste of something
That's so sublime
As a love beyond time
Lonely and
winsome
Calling for
someone
Living right now
Something is
shallow
Ugly and hollow
Doesn't even allow you
To want to know
How you might
Live for the
living
And give for the giving
Moment by
moment
One day at a time
It doesn't
matter
It's nothing
But dreaming anyhow