The Prodigals - Alchemy lyrics

Sitting here and dreaming, dreaming of salvation And salvation comes in love, at least that's what they say I don't know if it was love or just imagination But the siren of my dreams was made like me of clay Now I look outside my window at the people covered pavements Shores to the river of the traffic running through And the gray scale of sky says there's rain in my future And the only blue that I can see is what I feel for you We say that we'll be friends when we know we never will be Once we were as one, now we lie alone Alchemy once blended base metals into golden Now what once was gold is transmuted into stone Into lead and stone Sitting here and dreaming, dreaming of a sunrise The sunrise that takes over and the moon that fades away Daylight when it happens obscures the dream of darkness And the river shifts and shivers in the tawdry light of day I know I was a fool to take it all for granted Never once imagioned that I'd feel the way I do And I know the past is gone and I wish I could forget it But the begger never rides his horse My dreams are still of you [Chorus:] I am free to make my choices, I will choose my own direction I will walk along the pathway that others choose for me I will make my own decisions with sufficient introspection Now I introspect away until there's nothing left to see I can say that we'll be friends like it's really what I wanted Not to hold you in my arms, to lie once more with you But as alchemists once tried to change base metals into golden It never worked for them back then Why should it now come true? [Chorus:]