Those Good Old Dreams

From "Made In America", which was to be the start of the Carpenters' 1980s comeback (after Richard's Quaalude addiction treatment). Unfortunately, Karen was diving deeper into Anorexia Nervosa and looked terrible during their tour of this album, nevertheless, it's a BEAUTIFUL song:
As a child I was known for make-believing
All alone I created fantasies
As I grew people called it self-deceiving
But my heart helped me hold the memories...
As I walk through the world I find around me
Something new, yet familiar's in the air
I feel it everywhere
Like a child's eyes
On a Christmas night
I'm lookin' at you now
Finding answers to my prayers
* It's a new day for those good old dreams
One by one it seems they're comin' true
Here's the morning that my heart had seen
Here's the morning that just had to come through
Same old stage but what a change of scene...
No more dark horizons, only blue
It's a new day for those good old dreams
All my life I dreamed of lovin' you...
You're a spark of a long forgotten fire
You're a touch of a slowly growing wind
You're a taste of the ever-changing seasons
Telling me there are some things that don't end
We have left all the darkness far behind us (behind us)
All those hopes that we held along the way
Have made it to this day
Like an old love song
Gone for much too long
You hear it once again
And it carries you away
Repeat (*)
It's a new day for those good old dreams
And It's all because of you
(instrumental coda)