Music & lyrics: john popper      How can I stay awake when I know that my dreams will be of you   These moments I spend with you in my slumber are much too few   There are those who say that I spend too much time with my mind in an unconscious state   But how can there be harm in your arms in the dreams I create      What is right, what is wrong   What is poetry and what is song   Why can't I be left where I belong   Oh, to dream on, oh to dream on   Oh, what's sincere   What is fake   Why do they fear for my own sake   What magic rule will I break   Oh, to dream on, oh, to dream on      It's not a crime, too sublime to imagine a better life than this   One thought of you and I can't resist   I don't want to stay in a gray world that is so corrupt   Sometimes I pray, and I pray that I'll never wake up      What is right, what is wrong   What is poetry and what is song   Why can't I be left where I belong   Oh, to dream on, oh to dream on   Oh, what's sincere   What is fake   Why do they fear for my own sake   What magic rule will I break   Oh, to dream on, oh, to dream on      Oh, you know that I want you, so please let me sleep   In my dreams I will see you, in my dreams we will meet   In my sleep, love is easy, you know how I care   But I wake in the morning I and find you're not there   Come back to the living is what my friends say   One thought of you washes all of the words away   And I tell them   And I tell them   Why don't you just let me dream on   Dream on   Dream on