"Dreams Are Everything Until You Awaken" lyrics
I used to watch her on that
Talk show from my room
Early 2000s' overly invasive interview
A live audience taping
She just made her debut
Chart-topping 80s' baby
One day maybe could I be like you
I grow up fast and freely
Her posters on my walls
I follow in her footsteps
Every teaching of hers I recall it
Word for word, it's creepy
But endearing and true
Music speaks to her the same way it speaks to me
And it speaks through us both
Neither of us knows how
It's magic within words and sound
Dreams are everything until they are taken
From you like toys that the real world's confiscating
Placed out of reach just to gather dust upon the highest shelf
Who am I without this
Surely not myself
Got the job in my late teens
If you could call it that
Each moment feels like Christmas morning
I have big wins back to back
The world's mine for the taking
Years later, still on track
But what's deemed as successful's ever changing
All while time is moving
At top speed, it won't slow down
It's manic
Thought I'd be further along by now
Dreams are everything until they are twisted
Into insecurities, you can't predict it
How easily being overjoyed turns to being overwhelmed
But who am I without this
Surely not myself
What if where I am at is the furthest I can get
What if I've come all this way just to be someone they forget
What if this one setback undoes everything
I worked so hard to build from the ground up
What if none of it is enough
I sit and watch her on that
Talk show from my room
Twenty twenty-four was a whirlwind year
Her big breakthrough
New shiny thing to envy
New girl to pave the way
She's one year younger than me
So to that all I'll say is
Dreams are everything until you awaken
To the hard truth that they're meant for you to chase
And take something from
Not to break you or build your self worth around
Who am I without this
Who am I without this
Should I know by now
Should I know by now
Talk show from my room
Early 2000s' overly invasive interview
A live audience taping
She just made her debut
Chart-topping 80s' baby
One day maybe could I be like you
I grow up fast and freely
Her posters on my walls
I follow in her footsteps
Every teaching of hers I recall it
Word for word, it's creepy
But endearing and true
Music speaks to her the same way it speaks to me
And it speaks through us both
Neither of us knows how
It's magic within words and sound
Dreams are everything until they are taken
From you like toys that the real world's confiscating
Placed out of reach just to gather dust upon the highest shelf
Who am I without this
Surely not myself
Got the job in my late teens
If you could call it that
Each moment feels like Christmas morning
I have big wins back to back
The world's mine for the taking
Years later, still on track
But what's deemed as successful's ever changing
All while time is moving
At top speed, it won't slow down
It's manic
Thought I'd be further along by now
Dreams are everything until they are twisted
Into insecurities, you can't predict it
How easily being overjoyed turns to being overwhelmed
But who am I without this
Surely not myself
What if where I am at is the furthest I can get
What if I've come all this way just to be someone they forget
What if this one setback undoes everything
I worked so hard to build from the ground up
What if none of it is enough
I sit and watch her on that
Talk show from my room
Twenty twenty-four was a whirlwind year
Her big breakthrough
New shiny thing to envy
New girl to pave the way
She's one year younger than me
So to that all I'll say is
Dreams are everything until you awaken
To the hard truth that they're meant for you to chase
And take something from
Not to break you or build your self worth around
Who am I without this
Who am I without this
Should I know by now
Should I know by now
