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