On a black and white September night
When I lost my coat and missed my ride
I took the empty road alone

'Cause I'm a beggar to my own demise
And a victim of your easy lies
And I've slipped the world that was our own

Well, you said a good man's hard to find
And that wasn't me but you didn't mind
And I felt the ink begin to run

Then you pushed me down onto my knees
When the cotton moved in the summer breeze
And the words began to come undone

And now you hide me
In a dream within a dream

I found an old cassette from the car we had
With a scribbled note ripped from your pad
Where you claimed it's you who'd been deceived

But now the years go by and we're still entwined
And I can't help feeling that it's by design
Though I know you never did believe

And now you hide me
In a dream within a dream

Now I'm a burning field on a moonless night
Trying to right my wrongs, but I wrong my rights
And I know that things will never change

So from the moonlit pines on the county line
To the one blown letter in a neon sign
I search the corners of the frame

And now you hide me
In a dream within a dream

In a dream within a dream
In a dream within a dream
In a dream within a dream
In a dream within a dream
In a dream within a dream

Dream within a dream within a
Dream within a dream within a dream