Fantasy Meets Reality

Dreams and thoughts and fantasy
A world made of imagination deep in me
Shadows and magic playing in the light
Your wildest dreams fluttering just out of sight

Ideals and ideas of righteousness and truth
Vows of being upright and a will to improve
Innocence so sweet so naive and so young
Believing what they said and trusting the songs that they sung.

Backstabbing and climbing the ladder so high
Leaving your dreams in the dust with a sigh
Everything's about harder-faster-stronger-better
What do the idealistic thoughts of the young matter?

Working always to beat the others,
Forgetting friendship and the love of your brothers
Running this race that has no end
Shattered fantasies buried in the sand.

Because this world has no space for magic and hopes
Because you have to do the job before you learn the ropes
Because time and tide wait for neither woman nor man
Because imagination has no place in this land.

On idealism you cannot survive and on fantasy you cannot live
So forget your dreams for practicality's sake and let youth's naivety leave.