Livin' on Dreams Lyrics

-- Fred Tackett, Craig Fuller, Bill Payne, Paul Barrere 

Another grey dawn another day gone 
Deeper in debt as the night draws in 
There's something inside me 
Rings like a melody 
Pullin' my heart like a frozen wind 
  
Seems like most of my life's spent gettin' by day to day 
Fendin' off new hard times arrival 
Little by little I try as the days go by 
Waitin' around on some kind of luck's revival 
  
There's a full moon risin' just about midnight 
A high tide comin' 'round just about dawn 
But I know it can't last 
Livin' on dreams and the shadows they cast 
Got to be strong 
One of these days I gotta be gone 
Been livin' on dreams just a little too long 
  
The sleep comes hard and money does too 
So I wake up worried in the mornin' light 
As the sun comes through the tears in the window shades 
It don't seem fair that it has to be such a fight 
The women keep comin' 'round 
Spendin' my hard earned pay 
Bent on the minimization of my survival 
Been holdin' me down 
But one fine day 
Gonna break these chains of denial 
  
There's a full moon risin' just about midnight 
A high tide comin' 'round just about dawn 
But I know it can't last 
Livin' on dreams and the shadows they cast 
Got to be strong 
One of these days I gotta be gone 
Been livin' on dreams just a little too long 
  
Little by little I try as the days go by 
To find some way to break these chains of denial 
  
There's a full moon risin' just about midnight 
A high tide comin' 'round just about dawn 
But I know it can't last 
Livin' on dreams and the shadows they cast 
Got to be strong 
One of these days I gotta be gone 
Been livin' on dreams just a little too long