If I'm Dreaming My Life

David Bowie

Was she never there?
Was she ever?
Was it air she breathed?

At the wrong time
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh

All the flowers so
From the gallery
With the hymns of night
Singing, "Come to Me"

At the wrong time
On the wrong day
All the lights are fading now
If I'm dreaming all my life

Just one living chance
When the mother sighs
When the father steps aside
At the wrong time
Oh oh

Oh oh
Was she never here? (Was she never here?)
Was she ever? (Was she ever?)
Was it air she breathed? (Was it air she breathed?)

At the wrong time?
On the wrong day?
All the lights are fading out
If I'm dreaming all my life
If I'm dreaming all my life
Was she ever?
Was she ever here?
If I'm dreaming all my life
If I'm dreaming all my life away

Dreaming my life
Dreaming my
Dreaming my
Dreaming my
Dreaming my life
Dreaming my life away
Oh oh

Dreaming my life
Dreaming my
Dreaming my life away
Oh oh

Dreaming my life
Dreaming my
Dreaming my life away
Oh oh

Dreaming my life
Dreaming my
Dreaming my life away
Oh oh

Oh, oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh, oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh, oh oh
Oh, oh
Oh oh
Oh, oh oh
Oh oh


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    Sort of like the movie Mr. Nobody perhaps? The different things that could've happened in life.

    ejownz6on December 13, 2010   Link

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