A Dream Songtext
von ThouShaltNot

Open up your secret
Tell me how I might refract
For I am one and one life
In one time′s mirror
That I've been dying to crack
And let the world be more
Though I know when you checked
I opened up a door
I once discovered labyrinths before
That now lie unwandered and ignored


I could swear that I′ve lived as long as you
That I can imitate anything you do
But your hands are hundreds, I just two
Spun from your clock's relentless core
I could move like blown air
Everywhere, omniscient and wild
I would be your brother
Lover, father and child
And by the way to be foolish and be wise
And trace all the seams in time's disguise

And at the end of the day
I could blink my eyes to reload
Another self once more
Now I′m hearing your footsteps in the halls
While you′re singing and crouching over walls
Tell me, can I be really you at all
In the sky and on the ocean floor?

Last night I had a dream that you adored me
Last night I had a dream that I shone bright
The more I am at once to everybody
The more I'll be like you, the more I can rewrite


Here outside it′s raining
It's wailing, I′m soaked to the blood
Somehow I know that you did this
It's your kiss on my head
You′re dragged down under the flood
And if I learn to swim
Then you're still the sea that I'm running in
Defining all that I am and that I′ve ever been
And all that I will never be

Is there a way I might drink of you, not drown?
Is there a way I might find the pipeline out?
Or diffuse my body in the sound
Becoming waves, becoming free?

Last night I had a dream that you adored me
Last night I had a dream that I shone bright
The more I am at once to everybody
The more I′ll be like you, the more I can rewrite

I dreamt I was the air, that I was so strong
I dreamt I was a promise I could keep
I dreamt I was a film, I was a novel

A prayer for the impossible, a dire and desperate leap
I dreamt about a car, of grease and metal

I dreamt I was the moment of its crash
I dreamt I was a fire, a shrieking kettle
A cradle and a coffin and a wolf among the sheep
I dreamt I was a priest without forgiveness
I dreamt I was a thief who could see God
I turned away my eyes to keep them human
And waking up, I find that they've been stolen in my sleep

I dreamt that I had never loved another
I dreamt your heart was safe behind her ribs
That I could stop this war, that I could save her
But I was just a dream returning to the sea