Watch the shadow play

Turn and look away

It all comes out the same

We curse the light then

We curse the darkness

As we huddle ‘round the flame

That burns in our dreams

You can take your children down to the river

You can tell them that they rose from the sea

You can chain them... (more)

Watch the shadow play

Turn and look away

It all comes out the same

We curse the light then

We curse the darkness

As we huddle ‘round the flame

That burns in our dreams

You can take your children down to the river

You can tell them that they rose from the sea

You can chain them to the wheel of your nightmares

And tell them that’s the way it feels to be free

You can blame it on the sins of the father

You can blame it on the spin of the stars

You can live with regret or choose to forget

That we’re just the things that we are

It’s really only dreams that we live by

It’s dreams that bring us safe through the night

But it’s only the faintest reflections that we

Carry back into the light