Dave Mathews Band Dreams Of Our Fathers Lyrics

Dreams Of Our Fathers Lyrics

Oh, I'm choking, I'm choking
On the smoke from this burning house
I claw
and I scrape
But I can't seem to get out
But who then, who is
this
That's scratching from the ground
Oh, it's my world, too
But
whose gold is this I'm digging out?

When we go, where we go
When
we're dead
Is the verdict still out?
Do we get into line
To line up
with those long dead now?
With the muffled tears of sorrow
Bones
underground
Is this time our time?
Yes, it is
Without or with this
shadow of doubt

I don't want to wake up
Lost in the Dreams of our
Fathers
Oh, it's such a waste child
To live and die for the Dreams of our
Fathers
Though I must confess, yes
My view is a wonder about this
This
love I possess, love
Must be the Dreams of our Fathers

I wanna go, I
wanna run
We turn, so sure someone's looking down
It's haunting me,
haunting me
Leaves us here to get out
Though I don't believe, I don't
believe
This flavor in my mouth
Is from my tongue alone
So bitter I
wanna spit it out

I repeat these words
They come out
Under the
blue light in the sky
My empty pages are filling up
With these wicked
lies
But I hear deep in myself
An echo, an echo
Of empty, empty
emptiness
Comes up and swells inside

I don't want to wake up
Lost
in the Dreams of our Fathers
Oh, it's such a waste child
To live and die
for the Dreams of our Fathers
Though I must confess, yes
My view is a
wonder about this
This love I possess, love
It must be the Dreams of our
Fathers

Rain on my head
Rain on my head
Rain on me
And then
give me air
Rain on my love
Again and again
Why can't I dream you away
from me?

Look here, look here
Bloated, floating
Go belly
down
Belly up in the water
But who is this here that's drowned?
We
followed a drunken man
He got us all spinning round
But it's like he
swallowed himself
And didn't leave us a way out

I don't want to wake
up
Lost in the Dreams of our Fathers
Oh, it's such a shame child
To
live and die for the Dreams of our Fathers
Though I must confess, yes
My
view is a wonder about this
This love I possess, love
It must be the
Dreams of our Fathers

This love I possess, love
It must be the Dreams
of our Fathers
This love I possess, love
It must be the Dreams of our
Fathers
This love I possess, love
It must be the love of our
fathers

The dreams
The dreams
The dreams
This love I possess
love