Dreams Chords & Lyrics - Josh Ritter

[VERSE 1]
[Am] All that I felt on the first time it happened
[F] Was the feeling of something bad coming true
[G] One day I was happy, one day I was laughing
[Am] Then, somewhere a chain snapped; like that, I was loose

[VERSE 2]
[Am] Why don't anything give me the joy that it used to?
[F] Why don't anything feel as real as it once was?
[G] I feel so sad but that ain't how I choose to
[Am] It shouldn't have to hurt so bad but it does

[CHORUS]
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[F]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[G]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

[VERSE 3]
[Am] It was a summer night when I found my religion
[F] I was under the tent, I was struck by the palm
[G] And the Holy Spirit rained down upon me a vision
[Am] And I felt better a little while but then it was gone

[VERSE 4]
[Am] I went to the mountain then I went to the cavern
[F] I washed myself in the river and I waited on love
[G] But I was lonely and dark as the moons around Saturn
[Am] Yeah, darkness for miles was all that there was

[VERSE 5]
[Am] It was after the Lord and me parted ways that I found her
[F] And she was taking pictures of people who came in to the mall
[G] And she took my portrait as well as she could do
[Am] With someone who seemed to be not there at all

[VERSE 6]
[Am] I stayed with her a while and I called myself happy
[F] I clung to her hands, and her hair, and her mouth
[G] But like every man who finds out he is drowning
[Am] I held on to her hard until I just wore her out

[CHORUS]
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[F]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[G]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

[VERSE 7]
[Am] So I took off south like the beat of a bat wing
[F] I fell in with this boat salesman and a kid
[G] One carried the nails for his own crucifixion
[Am] The other one seemed to screw up whatever he did

[VERSE 8]
[Am] The kid always loved me like I was his neighbor
[F] He asked all about me and my life on the road
[G] And the boat salesman, when he found out he wasn't a savior
[Am] Shot himself in the head in a Key West Payday Loan

[VERSE 9]
[Am] I got jobs and I lost them like the beat of a drummer
[F] Who lost sleep, and got drunk, and couldn't see through his tears
[G] And just how I survived, I cannot even remember
[Am] But I know that it lasted a couple of years

[VERSE 10]
[Am] I moved down deep into the jungle during those days
[F] I existed on oranges and oxygen
[G] But I carried the sadness against which even the old ways
[Am] Reached their limits of power and could not defend

[CHORUS]
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[F]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[G]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

[CHORUS]
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[F]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[G]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

[VERSE 11]
[Am] I wandered through temples covered over with Saints' days
[F] I wandered through drug labs and kidnaps and graves
[G] I tried my best to meet death by the jaguar or AK
[Am] But I was covered over with grief and by this, I was saved

[VERSE 12]
[Am] When I was up, I saw the connection between all of all things
[F] When I was up, I was so high up above
[G] That the world appeared to me electric and thrilling
[Am] With a fineness of lightning and the sweet milk of love

[VERSE 13]
[Am] When I was down, the whole world melted
[F] In burning black plastic wherever I chanced to be
[G] And off that, I was judged with some kind of a tragic
[Am] Mistake that had somehow crawled out of the sea

[VERSE 14]
[Am] How long until I'm free of these devils that bind me?
[F] How long until I live the life that I have?
[G] Can I outstrip a creator who searches and finds me
[Am] Then leaves me with the demons that I already have?

[CHORUS]
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[F]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[G]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

[VERSE 15]
[Am] I went to the doctor who sent me to a doctor
[F] Who sent me to a doctor who sent me to a room
[G] And that's where I waited with the world ending around me
[Am] And the voices in my head jangling 'round in a tomb

[VERSE 16]
[Am] She gave me a bottle and I took what was in it
[F] The stuff in my bloodstream started to rattle and fizz
[G] And I know that they're working but the devil is still down there
[Am] I tell myself that it's better and sometimes it is

[VERSE 17]
[Am] What else is there to say but to tell you that I love you
[F] I haven't seen much of the world but I know
[G] That there aren't any others who know me like you do
[Am] And your comfort seems to follow me wherever I go

[VERSE 18]
[Am] I know you're no cure for the darkness inside me
[F] But it feels better just to know that you're near
[G] And your patience, your joy, and your strength are astounding
[Am] And I know that without you, I wouldn't be here

[VERSE 19]
[Am] And I know that without you, I would not be here
[F] And I know that without you, I would not be here
[G] I know that without you, I wouldn't be here
[Am] I know that without you

[CHORUS]
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[F]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[G]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

[CHORUS]
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[F]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[G]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone

[CHORUS]
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[F]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[G]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
[Am]Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone