Name: Beautiful Dream
Duration: P00H04M25S
Description: Your mom kept us abreast of your progress relative to the appropriately sized piece of fruit for most of the journey. Well, except when you were a sesame seed…and later, a shrimp. You were an orange in June and I sat on the bed with her and began to write some words about you. I didn’t know yet if you’d be a boy or a girl, just that you already amazed me…my beautiful dream.

Beautiful Dream

from Sweet Desperation by The Shady Janes

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Your mom kept us abreast of your progress relative to the appropriately sized piece of fruit for most of the journey. Well, except when you were a sesame seed…and later, a shrimp. You were an orange in June and I sat on the bed with her and began to write some words about you. I didn’t know yet if you’d be a boy or a girl, just that you already amazed me…my beautiful dream.

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My beautiful dream
You captured the glow of the sun
If I am a breeze
Then you are the thunder
That sings me to sleep, softly
Curiously, we close our eyes
And let this mystery
Sing a song that an angel
Might love to sing
About a thunderstorm
And what it brought ashore

You are a beautiful dream
A complex, impossible love
You brought out the trees
You brought down the doves
To rest on our knees, secretly
You begin to breathe
We hold our breath
With this wild wondering
You bring a song that an angel
Might love to sing
About how love is formed
And how dreams are born

My beautiful dream
These minutes and hours and weeks
We wait patiently
You’re wrapped up in sleep
Reflection of her, and of me
Erase me
And retrace a line
Around what we will be
You bring a song that an angel
Might love to sing
About a mother’s flame
A father’s name

Simply impossible
Little dream that you are
There were stars falling down
All around like diamonds
So I kept the best one
And inside was your beating heart
And our love

My beautiful dream
You captured the glow of the sun
If I am a breeze
Then you are the thunder
That sings me to sleep, softly

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from Sweet Desperation, released December 25, 2011
written/performed/recorded by Brad Hahn
mastered by Carl Saff

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The Shady Janes Fayetteville, Arkansas

The Shady Janes is a rock band from Fayetteville, AR. Relying on heavy-hearted songwriting from singer/guitarists Brad Hahn and Jayce Bannister, the band evokes the somber and the hopeful with equal fervor. Backed by the rhythm and creativity of Jeremy Mock on the drums and Damon Dugdale on the bass guitar, the group packs an emotional punch and distinct energy that is likely to capture hearts... ... more

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