Josh Ritter - Dreams lyrics

All that I felt on the first time it happened
Was the feeling of something bad coming true
One day I was happy, one day I was laughing
Then, somewhere a chain snapped like that
I was loose

Why don't anything give me the
Joy that it used to?
Why don't anything feel as real
As it once was?
I feel so sad but that ain't how I choose to
It shouldn't have to hurt so bad but it does

Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone it was a summer night when


I found my religion i was under the tent
I was struck by the palm
And the Holy Spirit rained down
Upon me a vision
And I felt better a little while
But then it was gone

I went to the mountain then
I went to the cavern
I washed myself in the river
And I waited on love
But, I was lonely and dark
As the moons around Saturn
Yeah, darkness for miles was
All that there was

It was after the Lord and me
Parted ways that I found her
And she was taking pictures of people
Who came in to the mall
And she took my portrait as
Well as she could do
With someone who seemed to be
Not there at all

I stayed with her a while
And I called myself happy
I clung to her hands, and her hair
And her mouth but like every man who finds
Out he is drowning
I held on to her hard until
I just wore her out

Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone

So I took off south like the
Beat of a bat wing
I fell in with this boat salesman and a kid
One carried the nails for his own crucifixion
The other one seemed to screw
Up whatever he did

The kid always loved me like
I was his neighbor
He asked all about me and my life on the road
And the boat salesman
When he found out he wasn't a savior
Shot himself in the head in
A Key West Payday Loan

I got jobs and I lost them
Like the beat of a drummer
Who lost sleep, and got drunk
And couldn't see through his tears
And just how I survived
I cannot even remember
But, I know that it lasted a couple of years

I moved down deep into the
Jungle during those days
I existed on oranges and oxygen
But, I carried the sadness against
Which even the old ways
Reached their limit's of power
And could not defend

Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone

Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream

I wandered through temples covered
Over with Saints' days
I wandered through drug labs
And kidnaps and graves
I tried my best to meet death
By the jaguar or AK
But, I was covered over with
Grief and by this, i was saved

When I was up, i saw the connection between
All of all things
When I was up, I was so high up above
That the world appeared to
Me electric and thrilling
With a fineness of lightning and
The sweet milk of love

When I was down, the whole world melted
In burning black plastic wherever
I chanced to be and off that
I was judged with some kind of a tragic
Mistake that had somehow crawled
Out of the sea

How long until I'm free of
These devils that bind me?
How long until I live the life that I have?
Can I outstrip a creator who
Searches and finds me
Then leaves me with the demons
That I already have?

Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone

I went to the doctor who sent me to a doctor
Who sent me to a doctor who sent me to a room
And that's where I waited with
The world ending around me
And the voices in my head
Jangling 'round in a tomb

She gave me a bottle and I
Took what was in it
The stuff in my bloodstream started
To rattle and fizz
And I know that they're working but
The devil is still down there
I tell myself that it's better
And sometimes it is

What else is there to say but to
Tell you that I love you
I haven't seen much of the world but I know
That there aren't any others who
Know me like you do
And your comfort seems to follow
Me wherever I go

I know you're no cure for
The darkness inside me
But it feels better just to
Know that you're near
And your patience, your joy
And your strength are astounding
And I know that without you
I wouldn't be here

I know that without you, I wouldn't be here
And I know that without you
I would not be here
I know that without you, I wouldn't be here
I know that without you

Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone

Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone

Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone

Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone

Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone
Dreams a-keep a-coming but the
Dream done gone

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