Story Behind The Song

The working title was "Dr. Lincoln" for a year or so, and the band still calls it that regularly.

Song Description

Epic and thickly layered with a 4/4 hook used regularly in the otherwise 6/8 song. Lyrically, about finding the right balance between reality and dreams; holding onto dreams without getting sucked into fantasy.

Lyrics

The city of substance rose starkly in front of me
Real, but so fragile, the buildings start crumbling away
Away, away, away
A crowd in hysterics flows through and around me
But finally back to the ground I won't be swept away
Away, away, away

I can see, I can see
We must stand firmly on solid ground
Stretching our arms to the sun, to the sun
Where we'll find respite from whatever life may have done

The risks of reality always were plain to me
Still, in my dreaming, I watched it from so far away
Away, away, away
And as the crowd focuses I know why they're so afraid
All these people have had their dreams stolen away
Away, away, away

I can see, I can see
We must stand firmly on solid ground
Stretching our arms to the sun, to the sun
Where we'll find respite from whatever life may have taken away
Away, away, away
Away, away, away, away

The crowd stares emptily beyond
Anxious, waiting for the dawn
Shaken from their fantasies
By sunburn's forced reality

I can see, I can see
We must stand firmly on solid ground
Stretching our arms to the sun, to the sun
Where we'll find respite from whatever life may have done to us all
Or we'll fall into the bottomless chasms reality tears in our dreams, in our dreams
Where we'll find respite from whatever life may taken away
Away, away, away
Away, away, away, away

The crowd stares emptily beyond
Anxious, waiting for the dawn
Shaken from their fantasies
By sunburn's forced reality