This is a song about an old man who never fulfilled his ambitions of making it big in the music business.

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I wrote this song thinking about someone close to me who is old and alone and I wondered what if that were me. Johnny D played drums, Leif Frederick played bass, Marc Weller played lead guitar, and I played rythym guitar and sang. The song was recorded in my home studio on a half inch analog tape deck.

Dreams of a Fool

He looks outside of his lonely room
Watching as the world goes slowly passing by
His lifelong dream has furnished a living tomb
He shrugs and says I might as well get high

Oh to be a prisoner of the dreams of a fool
Where excuses aren't the exception
They're the rule
Where failed plans and bullshit
Stand like precious jewels
To be a prisoner of the dreams of a fool

Long ago his youthful hair had turned to gray
But he still carries on like he was twenty two
Thinking he's the focus of all the songs he plays
There's always lots to say, nothing to lose