Why We Dream

[INTRO] [VERSE 1] Every night I close my eyes The room dissolves, the silence rises Who I was begins to die And something deeper softly sighs Beneath the island of my mind An ocean swells with ancient tides Forgotten things I left behind Come drifting back on moonlit sides [PRE-CHORUS] I cannot see the cave I'm in But I send my voice into the dark And wait for what comes back again A signal from the hidden heart [CHORUS] Why do we dream? Why do we dream? Echoes from the deep Where the soul can speak Why do we dream? Why do we dream? Not an empty sleep But a journey steep Into the unseen [INTERLUDE I] [VERSE 2] A hundred qubits in the dark A signal sent, a tiny spark They introduce a small perturb And watch it spread, and watch it work The butterfly in rainforest deep Changes skies I cannot see One image while I'm fast asleep Can alter what I think is me [PRE-CHORUS] The unconscious knows before I do It sees the cracks I paint across It models futures, paints them blue And sends them back without a loss [CHORUS] Why do we dream? Why do we dream? Echoes from the deep Where the soul can speak Why do we dream? Why do we dream? Not an empty sleep But a journey steep Into the unseen [BRIDGE] What if the yogi dreams me? What if I am the dream? What if waking is the shallow sea And sleep is where I'm real? [BUILD] [FINAL CHORUS] Why do we dream? Why do we dream? Echoes from the deep Where the soul can speak Why do we dream? Why do we dream? Not an empty sleep But a journey steep Into the unseen [OUTRO] Tonight I'll fall And something will return From places I can't name I'll listen for the echo I'll listen... [END]