Keep The Dream Alive Lyrics - John Vanderslice

One, two, three, five 

The night is only half alive 

The curtains blow the frightened tress 

They line the moonlit windy beach 

Four, five, six, seven 

My dreams never touched on heaven 

They come, they stream, they laugh, they bleed 

They drop me off in a thicket of reeds 

Keep the dream alive 

A boy, a dog, the dunes, the sea 

He stands in a thicket of reeds 

No food, cell or GPS 

I watched him weeping from the trees 

"The sea is only half alive 

Help me find my campsite", he said 

Keep the dream alive 

I dreamed he found his way back there 

The campsite though was stripped out bare 

The night was only half alive 

Skinned raccoons hung from a line 

For men there is no turning back 

They all had left with coonskin caps 

The embers smoked and barley glowed 

He gathered wood and started his own fire 

Keep the dream alive