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Broken Dreams

This version of Broken Dreams was released by Gordon Lightfoot in 1983.

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There’s an ocean in my mind
I’d give the world if I could find
A sailing ship and leave the past behind
Now that I must say adieu
It’s killing me, I’m telling you
When freedom calls what can a person do
I have felt the winds of change
Go stealing through my heart and soul
How wild it seems
In love songs and in nursery rhymes
On movie screens, in fairy tales
Lie broken dreams
Life’s broken dreams
Love’s broken dreams

Sometimes a broken dream
Will make you sad or make you mean
Sometimes things ain’t as bad as they might seem
You might walk a lonely street
Until one day you chance to meet
A stranger who might ask where have you been

You will see the light of change
Come shining through your windowpane
When hope is gone
Though money, fame, and riches are
For fools and kings or anything
That turns them on
Life’s broken deals
Life’s spinning wheels

There’s an ocean I have found
I’d like to sail the world around
And dream about the life I hope I’ll find
Now that I must say adieu
To love’s returns, I’m telling you
When freedom comes what can a person do

I have felt the winds of change
Go stealing through my heart and soul
How wild they seem
In sounds of spring, in winter storms
In autumn gales, on summer morns
Lie broken dreams
In love songs and in nursery rhymes
On movie screens, in fairy tales
Like broken dreams
Life’s broken dreams
Love’s broken dreams

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