Name: Littleton Cafe
Duration: 4 min 34 s
Channel: Randy Gould
Description: "Littleton Cafe" is a song by Randy Gould. 'Littleton Cafe' was motivated by a visit to a small-town diner in New Hampshire ...

Littleton Cafe

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'Littleton Cafe' was motivated by a visit to a small-town diner in New Hampshire ...

hold on to your dreams randy gould somewhere

Randy Gould

Hold On To Your Dreams

Thank you for stopping in. Please take a few minutes and listen to my music. Your comments are most welcome and are always appreciated. "No matter what you're doing, no matter what your age/Hold on to your innocence; hold on to your dreams." -Littleton Cafe, Randy Gould

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic General

Author

Randy Gould

Rights

2006

Uploaded

April 22, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 4:34

Story behind the song

'Littleton Cafe' was motivated by a visit to a small-town diner in New Hampshire and by the characters that I saw there.  It's really hard to tell when you look at people what their stories are, but this song captured what I imagined about a couple of them.  More importantly, writing this song made me think about holding on to what is most important in our lives..."hold on to your dreams".

Lyrics

Sitting at the counter of the Littleton Café
A gray-haired man sips coffee, waiting for his meal
And staring off in silence, his eyes fixed in a gaze
He thinks about a young man less than half his age

It was a year for sorrow in a nation torn by rage
It was the year of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King
It was the year that he turned eighteen, the first and last year of his life
A year defined deciding to flee or stay to fight

So casting all his plans aside, he left his family
And bought a ticket North and burned his free pass overseas

But really (s)he’s no different than any of the rest
That multitude of others who settled for much less
Trading what they hoped for when young and still naïve
For instead a lifetime of unfulfilled dreams

The lady moves in elegance, service with a smile
In thirty years that woman hasn’t slowed at all
And everybody knows her, at least that’s what they think
But the truth inside her is much different indeed

She started at the Café back in 1970
Just some spending money for a high school teen
She had no thought of staying, she had far too many plans
But sometimes life surprises, and her dreams slipped through her hands

And casting all her plans aside for her new family
She quit on school and her career for boyfriends and babies

So no matter what you’re doing, no matter what your age
Hold on to your innocence; hold on to your dreams

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