When You Dream

With life just begun, my sleeping new son
 Has eyes that roll back in his head
 They flutter and dart, he slows down his heart
 And pictures a world past his bed
 It's hard to believe
 As I watch you breathe
 Your mind drifts and weaves
 When you dream,
 What do you dream about?
 When you dream,
 What do you dream about?
 Do you dream about
 Music or mathematics
 Or planets too far for the eye?
 Do you dream about
 Jesus or quantum mechanics
 Or angels who sing lullabies?
 His fontanelle pulses with lives that he's lived
 With memories he'll learn to ignore
 And when it is closed, he already knows
 He's forgotten all he knew before
 But when sleep sets in
 History begins
 But the future will win
 When you dream,
 What do you dream about?
 When you dream,
 What do you dream about?
 Are they colour or black and white,
 Yiddish or English
 Or languages not yet conceived?
 Are they silent or boisterous?
 Do you hear noises just
 Loud enough to be perceived?
 Do you hear Del Shannon's "Runaway" playing
 On transistor radio waves?
 With so little experience,
 You mind not yet cognizant
 Are you wise beyond your few days?
 When you dream,
 What do you dream about?
 When you dream,
 What do you dream about?
 When you dream,
 What do you dream about?
 When you dream, (What do you dream about?)
 What do you dream about?
 When you dream,
 What do you dream about? (What do you dream about?)
 When you dream...