This Dream I Had

from The Joke Isn't Funny But It Goes Like This by Pierce Murphy

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about

I wrote this for a 24 hour songwriting/recording challenge that was put on during the early days of the pandemic. I had the little chorus melody floating around in my head for some time, but it never had any specific place to go. That is, until nobody had anyplace to go. And we were all scared, all confused. There were no answers then. Just questions and speculation.

And us. We were there. Separately together. And no matter what you thought of masks or anything, in the end we did it together.

I've come to realize that we push too hard on each other. We are too disagreeable and specific. No one is cut any slack. We're all fascists, or snowflakes, or some other derogatory term worthy of cancellation. But that just keeps things shitty, people. That just perpetuates how awful this all is. Instead of taking a difference of opinion as the flag of an enemy combatant, we can take it for what it squarely is: different.

I don't think we can control what we believe in. Like really believe in. That stuff makes us up in ways we're not privy to. So why make each other suffer for it? Let's find those spaces in between us. Let's marvel at the likeness. Let's compare notes on the differences.

But for fuck's sake, lets do it together.

lyrics

I had a dream
The sun was shining
All on your face
And on mine, too
In our favorite place
Something tall and frosty
On a bistro table

And our friends were all there
Catching light through the leaves
Being good to each other
On a warm summer breeze
It was beautiful, baby
This dream I had

You say, baby,
Where we going?
I say, baby,
It ain't worth knowing

When the sun turns his back on you
When you're caught in the light of the moon
It's still light, baby
And it can be ours, too