The Lovers Are Losing : <br />I dreamed I was drowning <br />in the river Thames <br />I dreamed I had nothing at all <br />nothing but my own skin <br /><br />Slipped away from your open hand <br />into the river <br />saw your face looking back at me <br />I saw my past <br />and I saw my future <br /><br />You take the pieces of the dreams that you have <br />cause you don't like the way they seem to be going <br />you cut them up and spread them out on the floor <br />you're full of hope as you begin rearranging <br />put it all back together <br />but anyway you look at things and try <br />the lovers are losing <br /><br />I dreamed I was watching <br />a young lover's dance <br />I reached out to touch your hand <br />but I was watching from a distance <br /><br />we cling to love like a skidding car <br />clinched to the corner <br />I try to hold on to what we are <br />the more I squeeze the quicker we all are <br /><br />You take the pieces of the dreams that you have <br />cause you don't like the way they seem to be going <br />you cut them up and spread them out on the floor <br />you're full of hope as you begin rearranging <br />put it all back together <br />but anyway you look at things and try <br />the lovers are losing <br /><br />I dreamed I had nothing at all (nothing at all) <br />I dreamed I had nothing at all <br /><br />You take the pieces of the dreams that you had <br />cause you don't like the way they seem to be going <br />you cut them up and spread them out on the floor <br />you're full of hope as you begin rearranging <br />put it all back together <br />but in the final reckoning <br />we're trying <br />the lovers are losing
