David Kilpatrick - Dreaming
Think of all the things we've been able to do in this incredible age of the world, all the places we have been, everything we have seen together. If w'd both been born 2000 years ago this would have been a dream...
We all met on mp3.com, we are still here although MP3.com is not.
Story behind the song
A song written for Shirley, who was five thousand miles away at the time. It's all true. There was another verse which never made it; just an image of one evening when we drove frantically up the slopes of Vesuvius, then ran out of breath to the rim of the crater, just to see the sun finally dip into the sea beyond the bay of Naples. For the rest, it's a song for anyone like us. We know where we started from, but not how we got where we are now...
Lyrics
David Kilpatrick © 1997, for Shirley 25 years
Some time I think these years with you
Must all have been a dream
And we have just been sleeping
Since we were seventeen
We've walked roads built by long-dead kings
Drunk water from their sacred springs
And heard the song the warm night sings
As she flies in on velvet wings
As red as vintage wine
We've flown above high mountains
We've sailed the deepest seas
Thrown coins in every fountain
And travelled as we pleased
And though the world holds much to fear
We've never let it venture near
But chose the safest course to steer
For what is now and what is here
Is all we hoped to find
I might have lived a warrior
When wars were fought with swords
I might have been a poet
Before men mastered words
Two thousand years ago, or ten
I might have run this race of men
Some other where, some other when
But would you (still) have been here then
And would you have been mine?
Some times I think these years with you
Must all have been a dream
