For Every Dream

Lyrics by John Mayer
Music by Dan Morris (The Cobbler)

This was my entry into the John Mayer songwriting contest. JM wrote some lyrics and posted them on the web for folks to compose songs with, and compose did I.


I keep a note that I wrote on a taxi-cab receipt
It says "Don't you go and listen to nobody but me"
I hit the big time for a nominal fee
You lose a friend in the end for every dream that you see come true

I got scars upon scrapes, I've got bruises on breaks
Masochistically committed to see how much of this I'll take
Three years under water, and I ain't even got the shakes
I'm going deeper and deeper and deep

I've got dreams to remember, I've got days to forget
I've got a phone call in to God but he hasn't called back yet 

I've spent nights in the sunshine, I've spent days in the rain
And twenty-eight years later, I don't even know my name