Dreams of Our Fathers

[dbtp]

This is the currently the only song officially released on an a studio album that has never been played live, though it was soundchecked in 2001 and 2003.

You can download the 2001 Soundcheck here

Oh, I'm choking, I'm choking on the smoke from this burning house
I claw and I scrape, but I can't seem to get out
but who, then, who is this that's scratching from the ground?
oh, it's my world, too, but whose gold is this I'm digging out?
when we go, where go when we're dead? is the verdict still out?
do we get into line to line up with those long dead now?
with the muffled tears of sorrow, bones underground
is this time our time? yes it is, without or with this shadow of doubt

I don't want to wake up lost in the dreams of our fathers
oh, it's such a waste, child, to live and die for the dreams of our fathers
though I must confess, yes, my view is a wonder about this
this love I possess, love, must be the dreams of our fathers

I wanna go, I wanna run and turn so sure someone's looking down
is haunting me, haunting me, leaves us here to get out
no, I don't believe, don't believe this flavor in my mouth is for my tongue alone
so bitter, I wanna spit it out
I repeat these words that come out under the blue light in the sky
my empty pages are filling up with these wicked lies
but I hear deep in myself an echo an echo of empty empty emptiness
comes up and swells inside

I don't want to wake up lost in the dreams of our fathers
oh, it's such a waste, child, to live and die for the dreams of our fathers
though I must confess, yes, my view is a wonder about this
this love I possess, love, it must be the dreams of our fathers

Rain on my head
rain on my head
rain on me, and then give me up
rain on my love, again and again
why can't I dream you away from me?

Looky here, looky here, bloated, floating, go belly down
belly-up in the water, but who is this here that's drowned?
we followed a drunken man, he got us all spinning round
but it's like he swallowed himself and didn't leave us a way out

I don't want to wake up lost in the dreams of our fathers
oh, it's such a shame, child, to live and die for the dreams of our fathers
though I must confess, yes, my view is a wonder about this
this love I possess, love, it must be the dreams of our fathers
this love I possess, love, it must be the dreams of our fathers
this love I possess, love
it must be the dreams of our fathers
this love I possess, love, it must be the love of our fathers
this love I possess, love