I'm chasing myself in my dreams...

I'm chasing myself in my dreams...
...as I walk down the same dim lightened street...
Away from the dreams from my future...
...away from the dreams of my past...

I'm chasing myself in my dreams...
...and I'm running as fast as I can...
For the chance to ask myself a question...
...but the question's outside of my head...

I'm chasing myself in my dreams...
...because I'm too scared to do it awake.
Too scared to believe in my future...
...too scared to confront my past...

I'm chasing myself in my dreams...
...that's the time I listen to myself...
I can try to make up for the burdens I've caused...
...I can remake the conditions I've felled.

I'm chasing myself in my dreams...
...for I am so scared of being alive...
Alive means responsibility...
...but I face my chores with an order of sleep...

I'm so scared of being alive...
Having to make choices
Having to trust
Having to build a home
...and a house... with a job... for your family
Having to be more than yourself

I'm so scared of being alive...
...because living as a child's so easy.
I can go out and play...
...and rhyme every day...
Then tomorrow go do that again.

I'm chasing myself in my dreams
But I'm not walking alone in the clouds...
...there's a man, and a gal, and they're dancing around...
...as I smile awake in my dreams...

I'm chasing myself in my dreams...
...to tell myself things are ok...
Where I am now, is not where I'll end up...
...and in the end things are ok...

I'm chasing myself in my dreams...
...and I have finally flagged the man down...
He looks at me in awe, and puts out his claw...
...as we embrace before dark becomes dawn...

I look myself in the eyes... literally, so is the case...
And I run down my thoughts... and my fears and my warts...
As myself listens to every ideal...

After I laid it all down, we talked for a while...
...until we gave up, and both left with a smile...
For we both understood, what that he couldn't get through...

...I'd have to figure it out on my own...

I watch myself dreaming in dreams...
...when real life is not what it seems...
And though it's only a thought,
...real awakenings are sought...

So, I'm still chasing myself in my dreams...