In my dreams I've learned to fly
Ever since they stole the sky
Walls and bars can't hide the stars
Shining in my mind's eye.
There are journeys where I go
Up above and down below
No-one here need ever know
Free to roam like Alice
In my memory palace.
How to keep hold of the past?
The present's a desert empty and vast
Clinging on still by a thread
To the life you once led.
Some have mementos they hide
Some keep a photo close by their side
Each has a way they prefer
To preserve who they were.
In my dreams I've learned to fly
Ever since they stole the sky
Walls and bars can't hide the stars
Shining in my mind's eye.
There are journeys where I go
Up above and down below
No-one here need ever know
Free to roam like Alice
In my memory palace.
Little by little each day
People and places are drifting away
The fading of all I hold dear
Is the fate I most fear.
So in a prison of stone
I've made a museum all of my own
Mounted my memories with care
In my mansion of air.
In my dreams I've learned to fly
Ever since they stole the sky
Walls and bars can't hide the stars
Shining in my mind's eye.
There are journeys where I go
Up above and down below
No-one here need ever know
Free to roam like Alice
In my memory palace.