Story Behind The Song
Anyone with emotional depth can relate to those horrible feelings that accompany the breakup of a relationship. Although the healing process takes longer for some than others, the one bridge everyone has to cross is the one that must be destroyed behind the person leaving a relationship that's over.
Song Description
Long after a meaningful relationship has ended, the female telling the story reaches that point of recognition where she can no longer go on hoping for reconcilliation. While admitting the difficulty of doing so, she faces the fact that she can no longer go on Living A Dream.
| Song Length |
4:24 |
Genre |
Country - Contemporary, Pop - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Poignant, Troubled |
Subject |
Lost Love, Unrequited Love |
| Similar Artists |
Leann Rimes, Celine Dion |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
LIVING A DREAM
Words and Music by Dave Sturgeon
Summertime breeze, not a cloud in the sky,
Lovers walking hand in hand.
Pretending to shade the sun from my eyes,
I sit alone on the sand.
Then just like a dream, visions of you,
Like a thousand times before.
Seems like instead of facing the truth,
I'm dreaming of you more and more.
chorus
But I can't go on, Living a Dream,
Now that your gone away.
I can't go on, Living a Dream,
There's nothing left to say.
Wasn't it you who said to me,
Never be afraid of true love.
But now that you're gone, I just can't see,
Any truth in the things you spoke of.
You'd think I'd be glad to see you gone,
You'd think I'd realize.
That I'm better off lonely, better alone,
Than together with you and your lies...
(bridge)
I still wonder how you are.
I'm still under your spell, your charms...
chorus out