Sitting here and dreaming, dreaming of salvation, 

And salvation comes in love, at least that's what they say 

I don't know if it was love or just imagination 

But the siren of my dreams was made like me of clay 

Now I look outside my window at the people covered pavements 

Shores to the river of the traffic running through 

and the gray scale of sky says there's rain in my future 

and the only blue that I can see is what I feel for you 



We say that we'll be friends when we know we never will be 

Once we were as one, now we lie alone 

Alchemy once blended base metals into golden 

Now what once was gold is transmuted into stone 

Into lead and stone 



Sitting here and dreaming, dreaming of a sunrise 

The sunrise that takes over and the moon that fades away 

daylight when it happens obscures the dream of darkness 

and the river shifts and shivers in the tawdry light of day 

I know I was a fool to take it all for granted 

Never once imagioned that I'd feel the way I do 

And I know the past is gone and I wish I could forget it 

but the begger never rides his horse,

my dreams are still of you 



(chorus)



I am free to make my choices, I will choose my own direction 

I will walk along the pathway that others choose for me 

I will make my own decisions with sufficient introspection 

Now I introspect away until there's nothing left to see 

I can say that we'll be friends like it's really what I wanted 

Not to hold you in my arms, to lie once more with you 

But as alchemists once tried to change base metals into golden 

It never worked for them back then,

why should it now come true? 



(chorus)