ATF: Dreams and Nightmares

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Jon Butcher]

Wishes

Jon Butcher

it's late at night in the neighborhood

And the thieves have all gone to bed

They can hear your heartbeat in the distance

As you lay down your weary head

But don't worry

‘Cause the dawn is breaking

In another room halfway around the world

And you can't waste your life wishing upon a star

‘Cause

If wishes were horses

If wishes were horses

If wishes were horses

Then dreamers would ride

Yes they would

A girl lives her life missing

Some things that she never had

Spends too much time

In the unemployment line

You see in her eyes

That it drives her mad

Deep within her constitution

Her pride and her dignity show through

So she works that dream

‘Cause it's all she can do

If wishes were horses

If wishes were horses

She says

If wishes were horses

Then dreamers would ride

Yes they would

Now I'm looking all around me for the answers

And I know you're looking hard too

I know what you're thinking

Maybe wishes come true

If wishes were horses

If wishes were horses

I know

If wishes were horses

Then dreamers would ride

Link: [Metallica]

Enter Sandman

Metallica

Say your prayers little one

Don't forget my son

To include everyone

I tuck you in

Warm within

Keep you free from sin

‘Til the sandman he comes

Sleep with one eye open

Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light

Enter night

Take my hand

We're off to never never land

Something's wrong

Shut the light

Heavy thoughts tonight

And they aren't of snow white

Dreams of war

Dreams of liars

Dreams of dragon’s fire

And of things that will bite ya

Sleep with one eye open

Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light

Enter night

Take my hand

We're off to never never land

Now I lay me down to sleep

Now I lay me down to sleep

Pray the Lord my soul to keep

Pray the Lord my soul to keep

If I die before I wake

If I die before I wake

Pray the Lord my soul to take

Pray the Lord my soul to take

Hush little baby

Don't say a word

And never mind that noise you heard

It’s just the beasts under your bed

In your closet

In your head

Exit light

Enter night

Grain of sand

Exit light

Enter Night

Take my hand

We're off to never never land

We're off to never never land

Take my hand

We're off to never never land

Take my hand

We're off to never never land

We're off to never never land

We’re off to never never land…

Lyrics From: [Song Database]

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