Can you remember the very moment

You learned your dreams were fairy tales

That your ambition is recited

From an endless paper trail

Another year deeper

In the wake of a dream  

The story of prince charming

Echos in your father’s voice

Like he’ll bring your happy ending

Like you have some sort of choice

And like the delicate princess

Boys guard their pedestal for

They’ll tread the unbloomed flowers

Already strewn on the floor

Another year deeper

In the wake of a dream  

Before you pull the hopes

Off children’s bookshelves

Remember, in the end

They’ll just learn for themselves

So go blind from the dress

And the white picket fence

Those paper trail dreams

Will start to make sense

Another year deeper

In the wake of a dream