DREAM THEME

I know you’ve been trying to sing your song,

but you can’t fit the words to the theme.

You’re doing everything you’re supposed to do,

but you still can’t figure out what it means.

Now that you’ve taken the course in the book,

maybe you should learn how to dream.

I hear that you hired a blue ribbon commission

to tell you to be who you are.

And since then you’re getting your RDA*

but you still can’t get your MDR*.

Every time you’re getting even close

they tell you that you’re going too far.

Even before you wake up in the morning,

your throat’s getting ready to scream.

You’re chomping caffeine to bounce in your brain

just to keep up a full head of steam.

You’re working to pay them to help you relax.

Maybe you should learn how to dream.

You sit in your study; you’re writing your memoirs

as your future’s beginning to gleam.

You’re a real sharp shooter playing in goal

and you think it’s for the good of the team.

Right now, I’m in an intensive course;

maybe we could learn how to dream.

* MDR = minimum daily requirement

* RDA = required daily allowance

Sometime in the seventies, cereal boxes stopped having MDRs of

vitamins on them and started having RDAs instead. I correctly

saw this as the beginning of everything going downhill.