Where The Dream Begins Lyrics - Borderland - Tom Russell

What happened to the kid in the baseball cap? 

Well he's trying to get home but I 'think he lost the 'map 

What happened to the kid with the 'braces on his 'teeth? 

He had an autographed picture of Muhammad Ali 

He's just a wise-assed, buck-toothed, near-sighted fool 

Always 'staring at the girls in the 'swimming 'pool 

Thirty years later and he's 'staring again 

He's searching for the place where the 'dreams begin 

Searching for the place where the dream begins 

Then he bought a bunch of records and he 'heard a man sing 

He said if I could write a song I believe I'd be a king 

But it took him twenty years until he got the nerve 

He's got boxes full of papers and 'papers full of words 

And the words fly away like 'swallows on the 'wind 

But they 'never flew back to the 'nest a'gain 

Never took him to the place where the dream be(Dm)gins 

Then he finally got married and he 'had two little 'girls 

But he didn't see 'em much cause he 'had to see the 'world 

And the lie that he told 'em is I'm 'like most 'men 

It's always down the road that the 'dream begins 

And the girls grew up to be 'pretty and wise 

They said "you could have seen the dream by looking in our 'eyes 

'You were always living in the 'world of pretend 

You kept running away from 'where the dream begins 

Running away from where the dream begins" 

Now he's living with a woman out on 'Borderland 'Road 

But her love's turned bitter, and her 'eyes turned 'cold 

She said we came to the desert, let the 'sickness 'mend 

But Hell ain't the place where the dreams be'gin 

'Look out boys I'm gaining on you 

He's old Blind Joe Death in his alligator shoes 

He's got a 'pocket full of pills and a 'pint of sloe gin 

He's gonna 'show you to the place where the 'dream be'gins 

Follow him down where the dream begins 

At the end of the road there ain't nothing but fear 

Just a big old room with a 'big old 'mirror 

And the man in the mirror his 'hair's turning gray 

And his hands begin to shake in a funny kind of way 

He's knows everything you bring for to save you soul 

Everything denied will condemn you to the 'hole 

With his hand on his heart he 'picks up his pen 

He goes searching for the place where the dream be'gins 

Looking for the place where the dream begins 

What happened to the kid in the baseball cap? 

He's trying to get home but I think he's lost the map.