A Dream Within a Dream Songtext
von Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows

Take this kiss upon the brow
And, in parting from you now
This much let me avow

You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day
In a vision, or in none
Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream
A dream within a dream

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand


How few, yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
While I weep
While I weep

O God! Can I not grasp them
With a tighter clasp?
O God! Can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem
But a dream?
A dream within a dream

You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day
In a vision, or in none
Is it therefore the less gone?