I Dreamt I Had a Dream

[Verse 1] I dreamt I had a dream But it faded at the corners Like water bleedin’ ink The names I used to call Were driftin’ in the silence Of rooms I never built [Verse 2] There was a road I knew But it twisted strange and narrow And you were walkin’ there You never looked behind But I could feel you leavin’ Though you never said a word [Chorus] I dreamt I had a dream Where all was nearly right But nothin’ held, nothin’ stayed I reached for you and touched the light Then woke beneath the ceilin’ With the cold still in the bed I dreamt I had a dream [Verse 3] You wrote somethin’ in the mist On the glass down at the station But the train came, and it blurred I waited there alone To catch the word you’d written But I never made it out [Bridge] There’s no grief like rememberin’ The things that never were A shadow of a shadow Is all I’ve left to share [Chorus] I dreamt I had a dream Your hands were warm in mine But time ran through between us Like sand we didn’t mind I woke up with the stillness Of a name I wouldn’t say I dreamt I had a dream [Outro] And every time I close me eyes I can’t say what is real If the dream was only memory Or the only thing I feel