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I've Built My Life Around a Dream, But Now I'm Waking Up

from Post​-​Mortem by Jesse Jay Allen

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I’ve built my life around a dream, but now I’m waking up

I can’t see
Could never see
Futility has blinded me
What if I fail, what if I break?
I can’t, there’s too much at stake

I’ve built my life around a dream
Now I’m waking up It seems
Everything was a figment
And that I was never meant
To trace that line or walk that street

I can’t burn fire, can’t bite my teeth
I’ll just put on a happy face
And move my shit from place to place
And choose my number in the race
Before this body slows my pace
I have tried but can’t erase
Genetic grammar out of place

So when I find another dream
To find myself wrapped in velveteen
Will you be there dressed as my queen
With diamond crown and emerald ring?

Or will I wake sprawled on a lawn
With dew-soaked face facing the dawn?
You’re everywhere peering at me
Scratching me to see me bleed

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from Post​-​Mortem, released August 1, 2006

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Jesse Jay Allen Tacoma, Washington

From Metropulse.com

On Dearest Echo, Allen matches thick, ambient guitar and synthesizer with Britpop melodies for an approximation of Radiohead, or Wilco at its most expansive. Allen’s solid voice has a forlorn quality that works with the music’s depressive tone. ... more

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