[Intro]
[instrumental]
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
[verse]
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
[BUILD UP]
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
[Chorus]
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Is but a dream within a dream.
[bridge]
[EMOTIONAL]
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
[dramatic]
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
[instrumental]
[Fade out]
