Story Behind The Song

Just thinking about weather it was better to be a dreamer or a realist, or a realistic dreamer....???

Song Description

A cheerful but melancholic waltz that explores the melding of vision of dreams with reality as a boy grows older.

Lyrics

World of Gold

Can you blame a boy with a dream?
Who hasn?t held it up to reality?
Who lives with a hope so simple,
you question your own sense of things.
Can you see the sparkle in his eyes?
In everything he sees, he sees life.
You wonder if he?s got some sort of secret, or is in touch with God.

(chorus)
Would you battle back his innocence
with all the ugliness you?ve experienced?
Or does it seem to pass right through
Some sort of filter he has that turns everything to gold?
In a world full of shit. In a world full of shit.
Yeah that?s how you?ve experienced it,
though I don?t want to quit.
Gonna find my world of gold.

I was that boy with a dream
that everything he touched was redeemed.
Now I?m not even sure that that exists,
I?m tired of facing the world with clenched fists.
But how long can you mourn a loss
before you pick up the eraser, wipe the slate across?
And start writing once again on a board so empty.
But that?s hard when that?s your history.

(chorus)

And there?s a whole other world on the inside
Of every person and thing and it hides
Silent in the center of the soul.
And its either hot or its cold.
And the world on the outside is what it is.
But its this world on the inside that puts the color in.
So I?m trying to pour some hope on the inside
So I can see Gold?.

(finale)
Can you find that boy with a dream?
Diggin down deeper inside of me.
Can you find the gold that hides inside.
Gold that changes the world outside.
Won?t believe that the dream has died
?cause I can see Gold.