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I Need A Dream

This is a song I wrote for Tommy Shaw around 1978; I would have been 12 or 13. It's in the key of A minor.

Living on the edge of darkness
It's a little harder moving day to day
But with someone to help me through the coldness
I can find a way

Someone there in my fantasies
The dream breaks through and somehow frees
An inner self that no one else sees
You fill my days

For though you're just a dream, I love you
For whatever it's worth, for what it means
And though you are so far away, I need you
I need a dream

Trying to really know my feelings
They're hidden back so far away
Can you understand the words that I've been stealing
Can you understand a word I say

The dreamer laughs and the dreamer cries
The dreamer loves and the dreamer lies
The dreamer lives for a dream that never dies
You fill my days

For though you're just a dream, I love you
For whatever it's worth, for what it means
And though you are so far away, I need you
I need a dream
Copyright 1997 Kristi Wachter


Last edited by Kristi Wachter, Racer Records, December 11, 1999.