Take this kiss upon the brow And in parting from you now
Thus much let me avow - You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream (That my days have been a dream)
Yet if hope has flown away In a night or in a day
In a vision or in none Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream
(All we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream)
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore
And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand
How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep
While I weep (while I weep)
(How they creep Through my fingers to the deep)
O God! Can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
(Is all we see or seem But a dream within a dream?)
O God! Can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
(Is all we see or seem But a dream within a dream?)
We standin' next to Poe we ask what's truly real?
Second layer private theater or collective appeal?
Are others only phantoms or reflections of the soul?
In the dusk of dreams we be seekin' the whole
The waking life a dream and dreams a deeper portal
Veiled truths stripped bare a personal shore
But what of those we hold close beloved and the true
Do they exist beyond the me and you?
In dreams we set sail on solitary seas
But do our paths they ever truly sync?
Collective spirit -- are we talkin' 'bout a lunar mirage
Or a beacon shinin' bright in the kaleidoscopic voyage?
(what of those we hold close beloved and the true
Do they exist beyond the me and you?)
The kiss upon the brow -- goodbye or is it greeting?
When dreams wake up do we find a new meeting?
Are others only facets of our own moonlit psyches?
Or eternal souls igniting psychic synapses brightening?
Beyond the surf-wracked shore beyond the sand's grasp
Do dreamers unite in a clandestine clasp?
Is all that we perceive just a trompe l'oeil of the psyche
Or a symphony of souls crossing realms great and mighty?
Seekin' the nature of dream realms we dive into uncharted
Seekin' answers we stride the lunar landscape undefeated hearted
In the realm of slumber do paths intertwine?
Are dreamers never just alone their journeys crypt-entwined?
(Are dreamers never just alone their journeys crypt-entwined?)
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore
And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand
How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep
While I weep (while I weep)
(how they creep Through my fingers to the deep)
Standing on the golden sand and by the moonlit tide
We seek to grasp the nature of this dream divide
Is all we see or seem just a dream within a dream?
A symphony of questions sonic psychic stream
Seekin' the nature of dream realms we dive into uncharted
Seekin' answers we stride the lunar landscape undefeated hearted
Are dreamers never just alone their journeys crypt-entwined?