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dreams - david james gibson lyrics

born in a factory working town
the cobbled streets were his playground
a worn out ball his favourite toy
just like all the other boys

at nine his head was full of dreams
of superstars on movie screens
at fifteen he stole his first car
i guess he won’t be going far

a wedding day at seventeen
shotgun; with a beauty queen
a broken home at twenty*one
he couldn’t stay, he had to run

at twenty*four he k!lled a man
on a drunken joyride into town
riding ’round with his old friends
trying to find his youth again

his dreams were shattered here
on the tar*black roads of yesteryear
dreams will be broken down
and as they die they make no sound

at thirty*five he’s out of jail
out of luck; the system’s failed
unsk!lled and unneeded now
he drifts around from town to town
he tries to heal the wounds he feels
with the bottle and the devil’s deals
something sweet to numb the pain
to find his boyhood dreams again

his dreams that were shattered here
on the tar*black roads of yesteryear
dreams will be broken down
and as they die they make no sound

as time creeps on the aching starts
for the scattered trail of broken hearts
for the lives he’s lost and left behind
for the people gone, and the tears he’s cried
for the wasted opportunities
for the better man he might have been
for the paths he never chose to take
and the choices that can’t be unmade

and one day he sees a younger man
on the silver screen from a distant land
a light familiar in his eyes
the trace of a long lost lover’s smile
a boy he never saw grow up
a boy who dreamed and followed up
a boy who grew to be a man
who shaped his life with his own hands
but his dreams were shattered here
on the tar*black roads of yesteryear
dreams that were broken down
and as they died they made no sound

and maybe when he sees the end
he’ll wish he could go back again
see that boy; nine years old
playing carefree in the road

maybe he will tell him lies
tell him it will be all right
maybe he’ll just say it plain
you’ll want to live your life again

- david james gibson lyrics

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