Livin' On Dreams

(album: Shake Me Up - 1991)

Another grey dawn another day gone
Deeper in debt as the night draws in
There's something inside me
Rings like a melody
Pulling my heart like a frozen wind

Seems like most of my life's spent getting by day to day
Fending off new hard times arrival
Little by little I try as the days go by
Waiting around on some kind of luck's revival

There's a full moon rising just about midnight
A high tide coming 'round just about dawn
But I know it can't last
Living on dreams and the shadows they cast
Got to be strong
One of these days I gotta be gone
Been living on dreams just a little too long

The sleep comes hard and money does too
So I wake up worried in the morning light
As the sun comes through the tears in the window shades
It don't seem fair that it has to be such a fight
The women keep coming 'round
Spending my hard earned pay
Bent on the minimization of my survival
Been holding me down
But one fine day
Gonna break these chains of denial

There's a full moon rising just about midnight
A high tide coming 'round just about dawn
But I know it can't last
Living on dreams and the shadows they cast
Got to be strong
One of these days I gotta be gone
Been living on dreams just a little too long

Little by little I try as the days go by
To find some way to break these chains of denial

There's a full moon rising just about midnight
A high tide coming 'round just about dawn
But I know it can't last
Living on dreams and the shadows they cast
Got to be strong
One of these days I gotta be gone
Been living on dreams just a little too long