You are free to choose whether this song is a celebration of the innocence of childhood or a lament for the fact that the world is unlikely to permit that innocence to endure. Whichever you choose may say more about you than it does about the song.

 


DREAM ON
Watching you sleeping at the night

So peacefully there in your bed

Wondering what are the dreams and the schemes

Going on inside your head.

 

Do you float on the clouds with the moon for your light?

Or ride on the back of an eagle in flight?

Sleep on, let your dreams take you high in the sky

Let the world pass you by tonight.

 

Dream on, little dreamer, dream while you can

One day you'll wake up and you'll be a man

You're still just a child – your spirit is free

Dream on, dream on for me.

 

Tomorrow awaits and once more

You'll wake to the new morning light

You'll have forgotten the places you've been

The world that you've seen in the night.

 

Try to remember, try not to forget

The real world is hard and you're not ready yet

Dream on, while you're dreaming I'll always be near

There's nothing to fear tonight.

 

Dream on, little dreamer, dream while you can

One day you'll wake up and you'll be a man

You're still just a child - your spirit is free

Dream on, dream on for me.