All that I felt on the first time it happened

Was the feeling of something bad coming true

One day I was happy, one day I was laughing

And then somewhere a chain snapped, like that I was loose

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

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

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

Shouldn't have to hurt so bad but it does

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

It was a summer night when I found my religion

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

And the Holy Spirit rained down upon me a vision

I felt better a little while but then it was gone

I went to the mountain and I went to the cabin

And I washed myself in the river and I waited on love

But I was lonely and dark as the moons around Saturn

Yeah, darkness for miles was all that there was

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

She was taking pictures of people who came into the mall

And she took my portrait as whether she could do with

Someone who seemed to me not there at all

I stayed with her awhile and I caught myself happy

I clung to her hands and her hair and her mouth

But like every man who finds out he is drowning

I held onto her heart until I just wore her out

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

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

Fell in with this boat salesman and a kid

One carried the nails for his own crucification

The other one seemed to screw up whatever he did

And the kid always loved me like I was his neighbor

He asked all about me and my life on the road

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

Shot himself in the head and a Key West payday loan, I got

Jobs and I lost them, like the beat of a drummer

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

And just how I survived, I cannot even remember

But I know that it lasted a couple of years

I moved down, deep into the jungle during those days

I existed on oranges and oxygen but I carried the sadness

Against which even the old ways reach their limits of power

And could not defend

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

I wandered through temples covered over with Saint Days

I wandered through drug labs and kidnaps and graves

I tried my best to meet death by the jaguar AK

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

Up, I saw the connection between all the evolved things but I was

Up, I was so high up above that the world appeared to me

Electric and thrilling with a finest of light and then the sweet milk of love

When I was down the hole, well, it melted

And burning black plastic wherever I chanced to be

And on that I was just with some kind of a tragic mistake

That had somehow crawled out of the sea, I long till I'm free

Of these devils that bind me

How long till I live the life that I have? Can I outstrip a Creator

Who searches and finds me then leaves me with demons

That I already have?

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

I went to the doctor who sent me to a doctor who sent me to a doctor

Who sent me to a room and that's where I waited with the world

Ending around me and the voices in my head spinning around in a tomb

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

The stuff in my blood stream started to rattle and fizz

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

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

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

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

Aren't any others who know me like you do

And your comfort seems to follow me wherever I go

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

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

And your patience, your joy and your strength are outstanding

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

I know that without you I wouldn't be here

I know that without you I would not be here

I know that without you I wouldn't be here

I know that without you

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone

Dreams will keep a coming but the dream done gone