Before Lyrics - Singles - Nanci Griffith

I dreamed of Louisiana 

And a night in Lafayette 

We had breakfast with Susanna 

We were young and wild and left 

Whats different here 

Than in that dream and in reality 

Is we werent afraid to fail in love 

And we all believed in the dream 

Before, before 

I dreamed of Manhattan 

In a time before this war 

It was snowing down on Bleeker Street 

It was before you were a star 

Whats different here 

Than in that dream and in reality 

Is we werent afraid to fail in love 

And we all believed in the dream 

Before, before 

Now everything is twilight 

Its a time too dark to see 

Its fear of being what we were 

And pondering the dream 

Then I dreamed of Texas 

And the Gulf Coast shores 

I dreamed of who we used to be 

And the hope we had before 

Whats different here 

Than in that dream and in reality 

Is we werent afraid to fail in love 

And we all believed in the dream 

Before, before