On a black and white September night When I lost my coat and missed my ride I took the empty road alone 'Cause I'm a beggar to my own demise And a victim of your easy lies And I've slipped the world that was our own Well, you said a good man's hard to find And that wasn't me but you didn't mind And I felt the ink begin to run Then you pushed me down onto my knees When the cotton moved in the summer breeze And the words began to come undone And now you hide me In a dream within a dream I found an old cassette from the car we had With a scribbled note ripped from your pad Where you claimed it's you who'd been deceived But now the years go by and we're still entwined And I can't help feeling that it's by design Though I know you never did believe And now you hide me In a dream within a dream Now I'm a burning field on a moonless night Trying to right my wrongs, but I wrong my rights And I know that things will never change So from the moonlit pines on the county line To the one blown letter in a neon sign I search the corners of the frame And now you hide me In a dream within a dream In a dream within a dream In a dream within a dream In a dream within a dream In a dream within a dream In a dream within a dream Dream within a dream within a Dream within a dream within our dream