War Dream

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- War Dream Lyrics written by: David Wolfe "Is all that we see or seem...But a dream within a dream?...If I reach into the dark between your memories...will I find myself...or nothing at all?" [Verse 1] You told me how the draft boards felt like fate with shaking hands, how the medic’s stamp kept you home while others shipped overseas. But later, when your voice would crack at quiet hours of the night, I wondered if your silence wasn’t survival— but mourning. You spoke of firebases sinking in monsoon floods, of buddies scattered across jungles you never walked. Yet sometimes the way you looked at me— like I was a miracle you couldn’t accept— made me wonder: What if the truth is flipped? What if you did go, and never came back? [Pre-Chorus] If memory is fragile and time can bend, how do I know I was ever here to begin with? [Chorus] Am I alive, or just the dream you never lived? A phantom child imagined in the breath you never took again. If your life ended in the fire of a distant, nameless war— Then maybe I’m the echo of the future you prayed for. If all we see or seem is but a dream within a dream— then maybe you imagined me. And nothing’s what it seems. [Verse 2] Sometimes I swear I see the truth in the flicker of your eyes: A soldier in the jungle rain, exhausted, wounded, watching the world collapse around him. And maybe in those final moments you dreamed of peace, of home, of the life you would’ve built if you survived. Maybe I am that dream. A life you crafted in the split-second between heartbeat and silence. And now I walk through this “reality” trying to understand why the shadows feel more solid than I do— why every breath feels borrowed, why every step feels like it’s built on shaking ground. [Pre-Chorus] Am I your hope? Your regret? Your unspoken plea? Or just the final spark before you slipped beneath the monsoon sky? [Chorus] Am I alive, or just the dream you never lived? A universe you conjured when the jungle closed its grip. If your story ended somewhere far beyond what I can see— Then maybe I’m the version of your life that couldn’t be. If all we see or seem is but a dream within a dream— then maybe you created me to outrun what death might mean. [Bridge] Thunder of helicopters in the distant haze, rain on your helmet like the ticking of days. A soldier fading under the weight of fate— dreams collapsing as the world vibrates. You imagined a house, a child, a name— a future untouched by the war’s cruel flame. And maybe that dream became me, somehow— living the life you wanted then but couldn’t have now. [Breakdown 1] AM I REAL— OR JUST YOUR FINAL UNFINISHED BREATH?! A SHADOW WRITTEN— BETWEEN YOUR HEARTBEAT AND YOUR DEATH! A DREAM— WITHIN A DREAM— AND I CAN’T WAKE UP! I CAN’T WAKE UP! I CAN’T WAKE UP! [Breakdown 2] If you died out there— THEN WHAT DOES THAT MAKE ME? A ghost? A thought? A figment drifting free? Monsoon winds carry truths untold— DID I EVER LIVE, OR AM I JUST A STORY YOU ONCE HELD? [Final Chorus] Am I alive, or just the dream you never lived? An echo born from everything you wished you could forgive. Maybe your soul dreamed one last sunrise, and I’m trapped inside its gleam— a life imagined by a soldier lost in Vietnam’s deep dream. If all we see or seem is but a dream within a dream— then maybe I exist nowhere but inside the spaces you wished you’d seen. [Outro] "If you wake…will I fade?...If you never lived…was I ever made?...And if I’m only in your dream...who is the one...who’s dreaming me?" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Album "Asylum" for download coming soon! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------