Thought I was laying in the gutter innMilk cartons and bonesnBut I was standing on a mountain topnLooking over your homesnThought I was laying in my garden withnMy hands deep in soilnBut I was there on an islandnShooting flares at you bothnThought I was soothing like a violinnConfessing new rainnBut I was piping like a trumpetnFrantic but faintnThought I was built like a building's builtnOn concrete and stonenI realized I'm just a hack actornFinished playing my rolennYou're reading my thoughtsnDreams old men dreamsnIt's just like when we were kidsnWe'd lay around wonderingnWe try to listen to what they saidnnThought I was writing for a hundred hoursnLooking straight into menBut I was reading on the newspaper obituarynThought I was nervous like mail mannReading your letters dearnBut I was at our anniversarynToasting thirty yearsnnYou're reading my thoughtsnDreams old men dreamnIt's just like when we were kidsnWe'd lay around wonderingnWe try to listen to what they say x2nnPush my piano outsidenI don't care x2nMeet the media black skynI don't care x2nThe neighbors will complainnLet them stare x2nWho knows where the time goesnI don't care x2nnWhat would you think of me if I told younI haven't slept in weeksnI've been up chasing my childhood with a pennThese are dreams old men dream