To Be A Dreamer - Nils Lofgren

One heart like a lion, still my pals shut me down

They laugh in my face, you know they need a clown

I swing from the trees, to my parallel bars

I feel so removed, like being from Mars

Oh, I miss love like water, when all there is coke

I dull the pain with hard liquor and smoke

Bet my best friend I’d be dead at 23

And I lost 'cause of one thing my Father said to me

He said: «Son, I brought you here to dream

Life’s not what the World would have it seem

The call of the wild makes you a believer

I brought you into this World to be a dreamer.»

Always did love protection, I took my Father’s advice

Soon my mind was being massaged, by friends once cold as ice

Tried to take it serious, in the end I was barely amused

I realized that Papa’s thoughts, was the only ones I could use

He said: «Son, I brought you here to dream

Life’s not what the World would have it seem

The call of the wild makes you a believer

I brought you into this World to be a dreamer.»