This is a song I wrote about alcoholism affecting the dreams you have for your life.
Lyrics
You cry for the success of someone else
But I wish you would pull your dreams
down from that shelf
Instead of watching them on the screen
Yours could be the ones that we see
I’ve watched the years pass on by
You lose a little more every time
So wont you please
Dust em off, try them on for me
Like a pair of your ragged old jeans
I bet they fit just perfectly
So take one down, Pass it around
See where it goes
Instead of reaching for the bottle
On your tippy toes
I wonder if you have got
99 dreams
Maybe you could take one down
For Me
Im begging now on my knees
Don’t reach for the bottle
reach for the dream
You put em up extremely high
So you don’t have to see them every time you walk by
They weren’t meant for collecting all the dust
Clean one off, shine it up. Darling you must
Before your so damn drunk that you stumble and fall
Or you miss your step and accidentally break them all
So wont you please
Dust em off, try them on for me
Like a pair of your ragged old jeans
I bet they fit just perfectly
So take one down, Pass it around
See where it goes
Instead of reaching for the bottle
On your tippy toes
I wonder if you have got
99 dreams
Maybe you could take one down
For Me
Im begging now on my knees
Don’t reach for the bottle
reach for the dream
99 bottles of beer on the wall
I bet you could finish them all
But all I see is 99 dreams
Floating down the alcohol streams
Don’t reach for the bottle
Reach for the dream more