[Soft Rock] = (Homelessness) Only In Dreams

## Walking Together: Songs for Solidarity ## ----------------------------------------------- [[Track Name: Only In Dreams [Homeless Causes]] [[Instrumental intro]] [[Smooth Rhodes Piano]] [[Fingerstyle Guitar / [Fingerpicking Guitar]] --------------------------------------------- [[Verse 1:]] As days are gone and darkness falls, the moon and stars do shine. while everyone has found his home, it's time that I found mine. ----- These, Days are gone ----- These, Days are gooooone ---------- [Pause to let the words linger]. [[Verse 2:]] I say, "Welcome to you, dear moon, shining so bright above. It's time for me to return home where I will find my love.” ----- I say, Welcome to you, ----- Welcome to yoooouuuu, [[-------------[Pause to let the words linger]] [[Chorus:]] But it's only in my dreams; ‘Cause I'm left alone, I have no home nor family, that are my very own. I have to go on day by day, Oh Lord, help me find my way. I’m left alone, left alone, Oh Lord, I’m left alooooone, [[------ Pause briefly; allow the emotion to settle before the next Verse]]. [[Verse 3:]] If I go back where I belong, remembering with regret, there’s someone without home and love whom I could not forget! -----If I go back, I go back, ----- I go back, I go baaaaack, ---------- [Pause to let the words linger]. [[Verse 4:]] And when I try to get some sleeeep for me, there's no sleeeeping, ‘Cause as I turn from side to side, I can hear someone weeeeping. No sleeping, No sleeping, -----------Just weeeeeping ---------- [Pause to let the words linger]. [[Outro:]] But it's only in my dreams; ‘Cause I'm left alone; I have no home nor family to call my very own. I have to go on, day by day. Oh Lord, please, help me find my way. ----In my dreams, In my dreams, ----In my dreams, In my dreeeesssams. ----------------------------------------------- [[A gentle fade-out with Rhodes or strings, letting the listener linger in the mood of the song]]. -----------------------------------------------