[Spoken Word: rap-like, breathless flat,rushed] Hippocampus·One·circuit·Replays·the·past·Rehearses·the·future·Same·circut·Both·directions·Every·night. [Intro 2: spoken word, male preacher cadence] Dreamer. Oh dreamer. The night already knows your name. I know it too. [choral question]How, Preacher? [Preacher resumes ] I came back for it. You, in the fourth pew. Forty years. One tent. One night. [Verse 1: laconic gospel, preaching to the choir] Dreamer, oh dreamer What ember sleeps in your chest? When the thought of the one at home appears Is it longing, or only a test? (I sat there too.) You carry a calm in your features Yet under that quiet you roam Between what the daylight calls virtue And the pull of the unknown [Chorus: gospel choir backed] Dreamer, dreamer What truth do you carry alone? Dreamer, dreamer What seed has already been sown? Dreamer, dreamer Between the wanting and role Dreamer, dreamer Who is the keeper of your soul? [Verse 2: laconic gospel, male preacher cadence] Dreamer, oh dreamer Do you seek the frost or the heat? You wander through gardens of questions With careful and wandering feet (I walked both.) You say it is only a tasting A brush with the edge of the real Yet the quiet observer within you Already knows what you feel Dreamer, oh dreamer In monochrome or in hue? You speak of the courage to wander But what is wandering to you? Is it freedom you carry like water Or a mask that you carefully wear? For even the boldest explorer Still meets his own presence there [Spoken-Word] The mirror is patient and still It does not accuse, does not command It simply returns the question You placed in your own hand [Bridge] Do you wake, or keep drifting in slumber? Do you wander, or answer the call? I will command you. The mirror will not. For the heart is a restless creation Forever remaking it all This wiser men than I have learned. [rushed, urgent, against his wil, fast] Memory-encoded·replayed-in-sleep·recalled·reconsolidated·rewritten [stated] Rewritten. Every time you open it. I have opened her ten thousand times. I have worn her smooth. [rushed, urgent, against his will] Ninety-minute cycles·four·five-a-night·it-has-been-rehearsing-you [sanity restored] Rehearsal is not the play. I will say that from this stage. I rehearsed leaving until I could do it in my sleep. [Chorus: gospel backed] Dreamer, dreamer, The question already knows. Dreamer, dreamer, The answer quietly grows. Dreamer, dreamer, Between the wanting and the role. Dreamer, dreamer, Walk up. Be keeper of your soul. [Outro : reflective, spoken, quiet] The aisle is sawdust. The lantern is low. One circuit. Both directions. Forty years. One tent. Same night. [sung] Dreamer… Oh dreamer… You were always the one Who must carry the soul. [spoken] (I was the one.) I set it down.
