I Will Find My Dream

Intro

(saung-gauk, slow) — a single string, a bell

(guitar vamp — low, steady) (huh) (huh)

Verse

I learned to count my steps by the cracks in the road

Posters peeled like promises nobody could hold

Smoke on the horizon like a memory that won't go

My guitar felt heavier the day they closed the doors

I kept a photograph folded in my back pocket

Of a stage and a wildlight I swore I would unlock it

Neighbors turning whispers into maps they don't trust

I hit the open chords but timing kept cutting us

Verse

Mama said the sky will change, but it takes its time

I watched the flags and the headlines rewrite the lines

Found a seed in a shoe, planted it in the dark

Sang to it every morning till it learned my heart

There are nights the city learns to breathe through fear

And mornings when the sun feels like something to steer

I got a compass made of questions, rusted and real

It points toward the music, it points toward the real

Pre-chorus

Crank the amps, light the fuse, let the anger run (let it run)

Put a match to the doubt — blow it up, one by one (yah)

Rattle the shutters with a voice that won't bend (won't bend)

Strike the chord of tomorrow and don't let it end (don't let it)

Chorus

I will find my dream — I will find my dream (I will find it)

I will find my dream — I will find my dream (yeah, yeah)

Dre-dream, dre-dream, (dre-dream) cut through the silence

Dre-dream, dre-dream, (dre-dream) break the compliance

I will find my dream — I will find my dream (yah, yah)

I will find my dream — I will find my dream (come on)

Verse

There are faces at checkpoints with lullabies in their hands

There are kids selling starlight in tin can stands

I learned the chords that tremble when a father prays

And the songs that stitch a coat from yesterday's praise

My voice got callused from shouting into doors

But hope is a stubborn thing that keeps on wanting more

I carry melodies in pockets patched with dust

They sound like forgiveness, they sound like trust

Pre-chorus

Turn the street into a stage — let the footsteps be drums (boom, boom)

Bend the steel of the night 'til a new day comes (a new day comes)

Hammer the silence with a roar that is raw (raw)

Raise your hands to the sky and take back what you saw (take it)

Chorus

I will find my dream — I will find my dream (I will find it)

I will find my dream — I will find my dream (uh-huh)

Dre-dream, dre-dream, (cut through) cut through the silence

Dre-dream, dre-dream, (break) break the compliance

I will find my dream — I will find my dream (heard me)

I will find my dream — I will find my dream (yeah)

Bridge

(wham-bam) shout it from the roofs, shout it from the trains

(hey-ya) let the color come back into these veins

(oh-oh) every broken skyline is a lyric in wait

(oh-oh) every empty theater is a future to take

Chorus

I will find my dream — I will find my dream (I will find it)

I will find my