Steve Eng Poet Lyric

Don'T Let Your Dreams Get Away From You

So many people you see on the street
Are walking heads down with their eyes at their feet,
You tell from how they move they’ve let it die.  
You see an old friend and you ask him “What’s new?”
--He changes the topic to talk about you,
He hates to let you see his dream went by.

Everyone says, “Son, you’re wasting your life,
The years come down like a rusty knife
And cut the heart from out of your fantasy.”
It’s damned good advice but the kind you ignore,
You smile and you’re keeping right on like before,
That golden dream is your reality.  

Don’t let your dreams get away from you, 
There’s nothing that’s quite as true
As a dream of your own—it’s stronger than stone,
Don’t let your dreams get away from you
There’s nothing that’s quite as true.

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Bella Robichaud September 19, 2008 at 2:06 PM Odd that today I would read this. My young married daughter announced she is with child and I was saddened by her joy. For I realized I could no longer live vicariously through her for now she is to be a mother herself, so I must let her go. Long ago dreams before her have surfaced today and you are so right they are so strong, stronger than stone and are actually a second chance to get to know oneself all over again. Thank you. Bella