If They Could Put You in Jail for Dreaming

New Song Alert!

I wrote this song a couple weeks ago and, after posting a very rough acoustic version and getting some feedback in a songwriting forum I sometimes hang out in, I decided to try to put together a fuller, combo version.

I had posted this briefly last week but thought twice about the performance and some of the instrumentation so I pulled the post and reworked the song. This may or may not be the keeper but I uploaded to my soundclick page and it's available there -- or you can play it from their server using the handy single song media player below.

If They Could Put You in Jail for Dreaming

Now, here is my confession
I'm the guilty one
I knew just what I was doing
and now look at what I've done

there isn't any mystery
about just who's to blame
the saddest little crime in history
has been added to my name

If they could put you in jail for dreaming
I'd never see the streets again
I'd be lying in my cell
telling stories to myself
and dreamin' bout what might have been


I stole a chance for happiness
then drove it into a ditch
I stole the secrets of hate and love
then I forgot which was which

If they could put you in jail for dreaming...

I know my biggest crime
is something I did not do
it's a shame and a sin I didn't
follow that whim
and steal away with you

If they could put you in jail for dreaming...


2007/10/18 TK Major
(C)2007, TK Major