Dreaming Out Loud

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now

Thus much let me avow

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day

In a vision, or in none

Is it therefore the less gone

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand

How few, yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep

While I weep while I weep!

Oh, God, can I not grasp

Them with a more

For the first time in years I can feel

For the first time I’ve come around

And I can breathe the air

I’m dreaming out loud

For the first time I’ve opened my eyes

Sometimes the bottle

Can drown out the dream

I’m dreaming out loud

Straight through the clouds and the skies

With a kiss, grace falls at your feet

So many memories

They seemed to have vanished in the haze

I know you’ll grow

I’m dreaming out loud

For the first time I’ve opened my eyes

Close the door

And turn the key

I’m dreaming out loud

There’s so much of life to give