Beautiful dreamer
Beautiful dreamer

Moved out into the city; mid-twenties
Left behind me all my troubles and all of my worries
I was in no hurry, to pass the time
Yet I did re-find myself in the constant spotlights

Of all the clubs that I’d visit in River North
Driving so fast down the lanes on Lakeshore
But it wasn’t for a year that I’d see her standing there
With a yellow patent purse and her beautiful hair

It took me by surprise, I couldn’t think quick
So just standing in an open elevator’s all I did
The words wouldn’t come, so I sealed my two lips
Had my stomach in knots, feeling twisted and sick

I’d find out soon enough that I wasn’t enough
To man up and stand beside her; I still bluffed
My way through the dates of an entire nine months
And no never did I ever blame her not even for once

Beautiful dreamer
Save yourself for another rainy day
Beautiful dreamer
What do you see?
When you’re staring out the window, do you see me?

A dreamer’s what I am, so dreaming’s what I can do
I ran to, both her arms and stayed
There for what seemed forever before things had started to sway
I couldn’t let go of my past, so my present days

Had started to suffer, from the problems and utter
Selfishness that I projected with such hecticness
I couldn’t see the blessings, so while I was so blessed but
I couldn’t see the ways that I was starting to mess up

So the story goes, so my life it flowed
Down the hourglass still I held onto some type of hope
That we’d keep our love, from somewhere far above
A plan unfolds but you’re never ready for the shove

Into the very present of all the wrongs that you did
She couldn’t take more so farewell she bid me
I permanently stayed so way past tipsy
But I still didn’t stumble when life tried to trip me

Beautiful dreamer
Save yourself for another rainy day
Beautiful dreamer
What do you see?
When you’re staring out the window, do you see me?
Beautiful dreamer
Beautiful dreamer