Impossible Dream

[Verse 1]
My waiter is a Brando
Effecting Nicholson's smile
I feel a sort of compassion
But choking down my dinner was a trial
The sixty-five year old poet
He's still finding his voice
I read his old yellow clipping
Calling him the poor man's shithouse Joyce

[Chorus]
The impossible dream (yes you will find out)
Impossible dream
The impossible dream (yes you will find out)
Impossible dream

[Verse 2]
His face was a jackal
It seemed to her in the dim
She clutched her precious objects
That held no meaning for him
She stuffed her screeching child into a stroller
It's throwing cheap plastic toys in its wake
Transfixed and horrified
He watched it snack on some kind of albino cake

[Chorus]
The impossible dream (yes you will find out)
Impossible dream
The impossible dream (yes you will find out)
Impossible dream

[Bridge]
Start at the top and live like you're always willing to fall
But you know it makes no difference to me
And you know it makes no difference to me

[Verse 3]
This year you'll reinvent yourself
And grow comfortably soft
You'll jump over the barbed wire
And get your giblets torn off
Slow motion in a crashin' car
His halo formed in shattered glass
Yellow police tape and a blonde wig
I guess you went too fast

[Chorus]
The impossible dream (yes you will find out)
Impossible dream
The impossible dream (yes you will find out)
Impossible dream
The impossible dream