Song for Shannon

Sleep my love, in your dreams your dreams you must pursue
Sleep my love, for your dreams will guide and shelter you.
Do not fear what the world brings for tomorrow the world is born anew.
Sleep my dear, sleep my love, for the world will be dreaming too.

You can’t know what lies in store, in the world outside your door.
Caution and kindness, and trouble on the wind!
You can not lie in fear, of things you should not hear,
You are surrounded by your own, your friends and your kin.

Sleep my love, in your dreams your dreams you must pursue
Sleep my love, for your dreams will guide and shelter you.
Do not fear what the world brings for tomorrow the world is born anew.
Sleep my dear, sleep my love, for the world will be dreaming too.

The world inside your head, as you lay back in your bed,
Cotton candy trees under rainbows in the sky.
It’s a world that you own, let it be your home,
Until you wake tomorrow morning, and your dreams teach you to fly.

And then tomorrow morn, once you’ve lost this morning’s scorn,
The nasty names, the hurtful games that made you almost cry
A new and better day will bring a new and better way,
And tomorrow’s new horizons will kiss today’s regret goodbye.

So sleep my love, in your dreams your dreams you must pursue
Sleep my love, for your dreams will guide and shelter you.
Do not fear what the world brings for tomorrow the world is born anew.
Sleep my dear, sleep my love, for the world will be dreaming too.