Long Night's Journey into Day - Redemption

Who are you?

Who am I?

Particles of dust floating under threatening skies

Struggling

Foolishly

Doomed to watch inert, knowing that our dreams will die

We sell our hopes for stones to build

Temples of regret

We grow up

We forget

What we lost

Or even that we dreamed at all

How many of my dream

Will I watch die a violent death

While others seem to watch theirs thrive?

Like children let loose in a hostile world

Stumbling blind with grasping hands

That cannot reach the light

We push the boulder up the hill

To watch it crash back down

How have I changed?

Where is the summit?

I’ve been climbing all my life and want to see

And all that I invest in

Does it just wither?

Or is something to be learned eluding me?

Build a castle in the clouds

And watch it fall to earth

It’s a struggle through the night

To keep our hopes alive

If we make it to the day

Can they still be saved?

Should I dare to dream?

Should anybody dare to dream?

«Resilience is its own reward»

I can hear the fools all say

Is it better if we have no hopes

Than to watch them turn to ash and blow away?

No disappointment in a life

In a life that does not hope

In a soul that never strives

But how empty is that life?

You can scarcely even call it one

It’s really just existing

It’s a lie denying pain

Pain is real without a doubt

But suffering’s a choice

And if dreams are just our energy

They never really die

We reshape them with another voice

We can choose to die with old dreams

Or live and dream anew

It’s a long night’s journey into day

But come what may I’ll make it through

Yeah I will make it through

It’s a struggle through the night

To keep our hopes alive

If we make it to the day

Can they still be saved?

It’s a struggle through the night

But the promise of the day

Can sustain us through our pain

We can dream again

Dare to dream

Dare to dream

Keep on dreaming

Keep on dreaming