Josh Ritter – Dreams (Guitar)

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  All that I felt on the first time it happened

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  Was the feeling of something bad coming true

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  One day I was happy, one day I was laughing

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  Then, somewhere a chain snapped; like that, I was loose

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  Why don't anything give me the joy that it used to?

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  Why don't anything feel as real as it once was?

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  I feel so sad but that ain't how I choose to

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  It shouldn't have to hurt so bad but it does

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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  It was a summer night when I found my religion

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  I was under the tent, I was struck by the palm

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  And the Holy Spirit rained down upon me a vision

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  And I felt better a little while but then it was gone

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  I went to the mountain then I went to the cavern

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  I washed myself in the river and I waited on love

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  But I was lonely and dark as the moons around Saturn

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  Yeah, darkness for miles was all that there was

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  It was after the Lord and me parted ways that I found her

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  And she was taking pictures of people who came in to the mall

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  And she took my portrait as well as she could do

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  With someone who seemed to be not there at all

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  I stayed with her a while and I called myself happy

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  I clung to her hands, and her hair, and her mouth

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  But like every man who finds out he is drowning

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  I held on to her hard until I just wore her out

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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  So I took off south like the beat of a bat wing

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  I fell in with this boat salesman and a kid

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  One carried the nails for his own crucifixion

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  The other one seemed to screw up whatever he did

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  The kid always loved me like I was his neighbor

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  He asked all about me and my life on the road

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  And the boat salesman, when he found out he wasn't a savior

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  Shot himself in the head in a Key West Payday Loan

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  I got jobs and I lost them like the beat of a drummer

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  Who lost sleep, and got drunk, and couldn't see through his tears

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  And just how I survived, I cannot even remember

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  But I know that it lasted a couple of years

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  I moved down deep into the jungle during those days

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  I existed on oranges and oxygen

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  But I carried the sadness against which even the old ways

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  Reached their limits of power and could not defend

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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  I wandered through temples covered over with Saints' days

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  I wandered through drug labs and kidnaps and graves

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  I tried my best to meet death by the jaguar or AK

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  But I was covered over with grief and by this, I was saved

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  When I was up, I saw the connection between all of all things

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  When I was up, I was so high up above

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  That the world appeared to me electric and thrilling

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  With a fineness of lightning and the sweet milk of love

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  When I was down, the whole world melted

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  In burning black plastic wherever I chanced to be

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  And off that, I was judged with some kind of a tragic

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  Mistake that had somehow crawled out of the sea

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  How long until I'm free of these devils that bind me?

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  How long until I live the life that I have?

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  Can I outstrip a creator who searches and finds me

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  Then leaves me with the demons that I already have?

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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  I went to the doctor who sent me to a doctor

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  Who sent me to a doctor who sent me to a room

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  And that's where I waited with the world ending around me

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  And the voices in my head jangling 'round in a tomb

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  She gave me a bottle and I took what was in it

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  The stuff in my bloodstream started to rattle and fizz

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  And I know that they're working but the devil is still down there

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  I tell myself that it's better and sometimes it is

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  What else is there to say but to tell you that I love you

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  I haven't seen much of the world but I know

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  That there aren't any others who know me like you do

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  And your comfort seems to follow me wherever I go

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  I know you're no cure for the darkness inside me

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  But it feels better just to know that you're near

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  And your patience, your joy, and your strength are astounding

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  And I know that without you, I wouldn't be here

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  And I know that without you, I would not be here

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  And I know that without you, I would not be here

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  I know that without you, I wouldn't be here

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  I know that without you

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

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Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone