Barenaked Ladies - When You Dream lyrics

With life just begun, my sleeping new son
Has eyes that roll back in his head
They flutter and dart
He slows down his heart
And pictures a world past his bed

It's hard to believe, as I watch you breathe
Your mind drifts and weaves

When you dream, what do you dream about?
When you dream, what do you dream about?
Do you dream about music or mathematics
Or planets too far for the eye?
Do you dream about Jesus or quantum mechanics
Or angels who sing lullabies?

His fontanelle pulses with lives
That he's lived
With memories he'll learn to ignore
And when it is closed, he already knows
He's forgotten all he knew before

But when sleep sets in, history begins
But the future will win

When you dream, what do you dream about?
When you dream, what do you dream about?
Are they color or black and white
Yiddish or English
Or languages not yet conceived?
Are they silent or boisterous?
Do you hear noises
Just loud enough to be perceived?
Do you hear Del Shannon's "Runaway" playing
On transistor radio waves?
With so little experience
Your mind not yet cognizant
Are you wise beyond your few days?

When you dream, what do you dream about?
When you dream, what do you dream about?
When you dream, what do you dream about?
When you dream
(what do you dream) what do you dream about?
When you dream, what do you dream about?
When you dream