Don’t Take The Dream

Inspiration

I wrote Don’t Take the Dream about a man who longed to come to America, but he had no chance of ever getting here. Although he knows that, he stills using the dream of one day getting to her shores as his motivation to keep living.

Born from earth that cracks and bleeds

Where hope is scarce like scattered seeds

I trace the stars with filthy hands

And dream of skies in promised lands

[Verse 2]

She’s a place I’ll never know

A gleam that sets my heart aglow

She’s the flame beyond my reach

Yet still her warmth is all I seek

[Chorus]

Don’t take the dream from my tired eyes

Let me love what I can’t realize

God I’m begging bend the truth

Please lie

Let the dream never say goodbye

[Verse 3]

She’s liberty wrapped in silk and stone

Her voice the song I call my own

She doesn’t see me waiting here

But my soul’s anchored

Clinging near

[Bridge]

I’ve prayed in shadows cried in rain

Laughed in madness sang through pain

If she’s the ocean I’m the shore

Forever yearning forever more

[Chorus]

Don’t take the dream from my tired eyes

Let me love what I can’t realize

God I’m begging bend the truth

Please lie

Let the dream never say goodbye