Dream Again

from Open Hand by David Wilcox

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$0.99 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

We had time to dream
Our huckleberry glide downstream
That's the way it seemed
Time was cheap as gasoline

Old route 66 through the sticks
Was our magic carpet
How we used to fly and not look down

Far across the seas
The history of the ancient empires
(we were) Earning our degrees
We'd study hard to stoke our own fires

So summer we could fly you and I
With our headphones blairing
Whistling through the fallen ruins of Rome

I know we're not at peace
Coming back across our border
Security police
Change the homeland threat to orange

Remember back when we were the free
And the hopeful nation
Home from our vacation toe that line

I got no time to rest
Search for work in Carolina
We used to make the best
Now they ship that stuff from China

Factories closing down left this town
With our homeless shelters, and
Blankets in the dirt when gates get closed

Ashes in the dust
Must have been their campfire burning
It's boom until it's bust
That's the lesson we've been learning

Through our glory days all ablaze
With our pride and promise
We never saw the ways it all burns down

We're leaving here tonight
Walk the rails across that river
On the other side
All the future can deliver

Across this great divide, river's wide
Where the future's waiting
If I can just decide to leave the past

(come on)
It's who we've always been
The land of dreams and visionaries
The frontier starts again
Make our way with what we carry

The journey is from here, hope or fear
For our children's children
We ARE the pioneers
We have a dream again

credits

from Open Hand, released April 7, 2009

license

about

David Wilcox Asheville, North Carolina

contact / help

Contact David Wilcox

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like David Wilcox, you may also like:

I Need to Start a Garden
by Haley Heynderickx

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 10, 2018
go to album
Write The Soil Lighter
by Mother Juniper

“Write The Soil Lighter” is full of beguilingly mysterious folk-adjacent music, shrouded in shadow and atmospherics. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 30, 2023
go to album
The Same Mistakes
by Hot Left Pole

Soft-as-a-whisper folk music, with spiderwebs of guitar and vocal melodies as comforting as a lullaby. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 26, 2023
go to album
Hard Work
by Hot Left Pole

Whispery indie folk from the UK, “Hard Work” cradles soft and gentle vocal melodies in a nest of acoustic guitars. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 23, 2022
go to album
Feel The Ground You Walk Upon
by Lewis McLaughlin

Old-fashioned fiddles harmonize with rippling synths on the Scottish singer-songwriter's latest collection of original folk songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2022
go to album
LIFE ON EARTH
by Hurray For The Riff Raff

The latest from Hurray for the Riff Raff expands their sound into rock & psychedelia while offering trenchant, politically charged lyrics. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 21, 2022
go to album
Lammas Fair
by Henry Parker

Singer-songwriter Henry Parker puts his own spin on the classic sounds of '60s and '70s British folk on this wilderness-inspired new LP. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 9, 2021
go to album