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Gone the Dream

At the end of the day
When all had been done
And all had been said
In the kitchen laughing with you
Before I went to bed
My face in the light illuminated
Untroubled and safe
As your face is shining upon me
A love that would never cease

And out where the cold wind blows
It rocks my childhood sleep
And up in the starry skies
And further out to sea
Late in time when it will come
I see it in my dreams

At night with the cold wind blowing
At night with the cold wind blowing outside

Gone the dream
It’s all faded now
Gone the dream
It’s all faded now
Take me home

Hours pass ticking slowly
Lying wide awake
All across the land the lights are out
Under an open sky
I feel for you and everybody
Dreaming in your beds
I’m feeling lost there is nothing
Nothing more than this

Going out where the cold wind blows
It rocks my childhood sleep
And up in the starry skies
And further out to sea
Late in time when it will come
I see it in my dreams

At night with the cold wind blowing
At night with the cold wind blowing

Song Notes

Rick McMurray during the Tim Burgess Twitter listening party for 1977 in April 2020:

There were a couple of versions of this recorded in the studio but this is the one that made the album. Owen had wanted us to do it in a very Beatlesy way but it just didn’t work for us, so this is the version that made it.