The War On Drugs Lost In The Dream Lyrics

[Giacometta Fritchman]

TheWar On Drugs' song 'Lost In The Dream' delves into the complex interplay between memory, love, and the passage of time. The lyrics paint a vivid picture of someone grappling with the ephemeral nature of dreams and the haunting persistence of memories. The opening lines, 'Lost in the dream / Or just the silence of a moment,' set the tone for a journey through introspection and the blurred lines between reality and illusion. This ambiguity is a recurring theme, reflecting the difficulty in distinguishing between what is real and what is imagined or remembered.

This place a palace of light drawn with shade

Of silence and pretence a token of our trade

And here you and I lie wreathed in flames

All over a life lived by making up new games

Of gazes and whispers

We shared a penchant for cyanide praise

Fashioned our armours of empathy's malaise

And all of that hurt, and all of those words that we said

You'd think we poisoned the ground on which we tread

But the lining is silver

The best of intentions will not see the road paved

The end of illusions, who could ever be saved

What's left behind in the storms that we braved

The troubles we find and the chances we waived

It's the season of dust trailing old pick up trucks

Seashells washed ashore down by the docks

So baby pull on your blue jeans turn the radio loud

Don't wait for the hour to give birth to doubt

In the peak harvest of snakebites and wasted hindsight

When trivial truths sit next to the taillights

When fenders of chrome they rattle and hum

All carved in the shape of freedom

Oh lord won't you hear your children cry

Singing their praise and their hallelujahs

I have no more words to describe

An empty sky of hollow blue, yeah

So where is my lover, my firelight

The line on the edge of truth and rumour

We took our vows in the heart of the night

We were brazen and bright, when we were brazen and bright

If all the isms and doctrines of life were a gentle breeze instead of that usual judgmental freeze,

would we all be as easily shanghaied to their cause, as now we seem to object every clause,

and would we have the unerring nerve to go after our deepest desires with a similar verve,

who would it serve

She's plastic, she's speed read, a classic line between the lines

Fantastic and half dead, his tactic, blind to warning signs

Her clashes of colors are flashes of society

In ashes his dollars like posters of a tragic love story

He's shooting at shadows, portraying a proper soldier boy

She's thinking, in logos, still searching for the real mccoy

Broadcasters, they've got this, disasters, a wasp of a satire

Like actors who french kiss right after someone stole their fire

Harlots by the half-moon, charlatans by wine

Seeking out our pleasure, the sweet concubine

That abrasive acquaintance, it's a wonder how we fawn

Stopping at these stations before they're gone

Hello old lovers of mine, my little boy wishes of fortune's kisses

Now dreams cast aside

In the fading light your crown of thorns becomes a halo of branching horns

And yet so beautiful

I see you gently swaying in a sea of seesaws

Slumming in the shack Tony built last year

I know you'll be holding court with jackdaws

Crying when nobody ever sees your tears

When no-one sees your tears

What used to fly us from here to the stratosphere

What became of our passion

Is there no-one who cares

Hear the soft minor key of the one time me

Still the acrobat with my heart on my sleeve

And it's so beautiful

Out back where the gates are closed

Like a pitiful skeleton pose

We held our first line of defence

Saw our likeness and it made no sense

Like toy soldiers in the muck and dirt

Salvation in your every word

Lost in the fray of everyday

So this is what you think you need to play the game

A pretty royal flush of second hand fame

For proof of excellence, for critical acclaim

Aloof preeminence preceding your pen name

Cliches of violence and off mark blame

Some character flaws to masticate the shame

Sex in a dress in a wide array

Sex in a suit, hello, happy birthday

Time is a wraith at the point of no return

A memory of the light of day

Time is ablaze and so we burn

Until the ashes of our lives are blown away

Wish I had the power to make you stay

I ain't so pure of heart myself that I can go and say how you should be

But I know the temptation

The meaning you will give your life is up to you no safety guaranteed

But it will be amazing

Place your hand against the wall and follow every contour till you're free

Yourself forgiven

So what are you a slave to now when every winding maze will disappear

What makes your prison

For my words are the salt of lust on that ivory skin,

difficult to hear at all through the everyday din.

What is this if not some witchcraft

wrapped up widdershins to lead us all astray,

hook in mouth, on through such webs of lies

truth's a distant star in our eyes moonlight kissed.

New day comes again and it laughs in our face

whispering secrets of pain by all its names,

what flame could burn out the stain of a life misplaced.

But summer's scents still lingers in your hair,

despite the ache there's magic everywhere.

Out the window run rebellion

rapt with all you find for seeking something new.

Play in the ponds like summer's wind.

Dance with trees melding with mist

beyond the flower field like you're moonlight kissed.

Set the world on fire with bittersweet desire

To chase away the night, let the whole world burn

Set the world on fire for bliss in sweet denial, oblivion and peace

Will you let me burn?

Can you feel the void between us

Nothing there but light, yet it seems like the weight of the world

Keeping us here in the dark

If I allow our blessings define us

Bearing the scars of our loss like it's all we deserve

When passions we hold will depart

With every wall ablaze around us

Calling out your name like it's now and never surrender

Victory is yours to claim

By every trick of light by sleight of hand

That makes a miracle reality right where you stand

They got their claws in good and deep

So you see there ain't no placing the blame

I'm in way too deep like a poser

And falling for the dream's just the ground getting closer

I guess it's how our lives get painted in scars

With everything riding on a joker

With the paradise syndrome strap on for spurs

Regret is the skin you shed just to make it this far

I got nothing to call a solution

Not a penny to my name, just riding the motion

Yet like a child I still reach for the stars

But if this darkened hole is my conclusion

And the mother of pearl world is just a notion

I lose for playing out my part in this farce

Hey, what's going on? Whatcha doin' here?

Is there something wrong tonight?

Do you remember who I chose to be?

My best friend in this life

Life doesn't run a clear course

It flows through from within

It's supposed to take you places and leave markings on your skin

Hey, can you tell me who you are?

The colour of your dawn

When the gates are open from last night's revelry on the lawn

And when the sounds of laughter still echo in your dreams

The smoke screen disappears and nothing is what it seems

Love is there when you open the door

and you step off the trail you knew before

Through the streets and the houses of gods you roam

and on their altars you lay your heart of stone

I've talked to the ladies down the walk

I've drunk in tattoos that have brought the world to my eyes

Understanding opens doors

to the intricate weave of how good tomorrow could be

Been doused in elixir to numb my pains

And black and white thoughts have all bowed to me

As I've walked through their unlit corridors

And weak as I am you're like an angel standing by me

Why's it feel, like it kills, when you're leaving me

Am I still hanging on to the ends of yesterday in me

When I was crying for my fears, bitter tears

But you made me see we're crazy running

Crazy running like we're running out of time

Why's it feel, like it kills, you're not leaving me

Am I still hanging on to the ends of yesterday in me

Still defining all my fears, bitter tears

You can make me see we're crazy running

Crazy running like we're running out of time

Why's it feel, like it kills, you're not leaving me

Am I still hanging on to the ends of yesterday in me

When I was crying for my fears, bitter tears

But you made me see we're crazy running

Crazy running like we're running out of time

Chills, chills come racing down my spine like a storm on my skin

With shaking hands, I'll guide your sweet soul into mine

Until I feel you within

And I know, I know that it's all about understanding

Am I hidden inside your beautiful soul as it's crying

For love to conquer the day slowly dawning

I want you to know you're the heart of my temple of thought

And you stay, stay with me when I break down

Like a dream come saving

And if words should fail here, I'll just read the way you sound

'Till I know the meaning of love and life

And it could be I'm understating what it means

That you're standing behind every word you say

To make my day slowly dawning

I want you to know you're the heart of my temple of thought

We took a gamble with this love, like sailing to the storm

With the waves rushing over to take us, we were battling against the tide

You were my beacon of salvation, I was your starlight

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