If I was the prince of dreams and you were my princess
I would clothe my love in robes of red and grant you all your wishes
We’d ride my horse of colours up the mountainside and visit
All the cities of gold that taunt us with their beauty and their distance
After we’d been cleansed by rain
And purified by fire
We’d find our village far below
And quietly retire
And we would live there humbly, wanting nothing, finally free
In love forever, if I was the prince of dreams
But I am not the prince of dreams nor even a relation
I’m just another toiler in the vineyard of creation
I don’t have no special answer for this or any situation
I can’t save you from your sorrow or from your expectation
And I do not know the prince of dreams
I’ve only heard his laughter
In the night before I touch you
In the light the morning after
When we rise and find our perfect love has left us lost at sea
He is standing in the shadows, prince of dreams
But you and I we can’t look back, we’ve only got each other
And this love that sometimes wounds us, sometimes heals the wounds we suffer
There’ll be days the sky may crush us till there’s nothing left to offer
And nights our love is glowing like a candle on an altar
But when I take you by the hand
And look into your eyes
And see an endless emptiness
Nothing could satisfy
Then I know it’s he you take me for
Of please do not mistake me for
The one I’ll never be, the prince of dreams
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