Living the Dream

The cool night soothes my tired face with a healing hand
Is that a blessing or a curse that carries the weight of man?
The heartache of a sleeping world distorted by all the noise of time

Oh in this complicated life of mine
I always feel I'm in decline
Coincidence a dream that's a mystery
So I plow myself beneath a tree
I watch the ocean peel away my dreams
But they're the killing me

It's not what I thought life would turn out to be
Oh when I was seventeen, I was living the drеam
It's not what I thought life was gonna be

Oh therе's no conflict, character, no point
No drummers only does a joint
The pilgrims all in progress 'cause they were ahead of the time
All of this troubled summer, I should try
To catch the moonbeams while I'm riding high

Oh so I tried to hold the conversation
With a man preoccupied by visions of riverbanks
I give it thanks for history
I'm not walking with my head in my hands
It's just I'm older than I look on the silver screens
Oh, they trouble me
That's not what I thought life would turn out to be
Oh, when I was seventeen, I was living the dream
It's not what thought my life would turn out to be, no

Oh, I’m living the dream and it's killing me
It's not what I thought life would turn out to be
Oh now, I'm living the dream
Hey what you’re doing with me?
That's not how I thought life was gonna be

Oh, in this complicated life of mine
I always feel I'm in decline
Oh