ROY ORBISON lyrics - In The Real World

(Jennings/Kerr)



In dreams we do so many things

We set aside the rules we know

And fly the world so high

In great and shining rings



If only we could always live in dreams

If only we could make of life

What, in dreams, it seems



But in the real world

We must say real goodbyes

No matter if the love will live

It will never die



In the real world

There are things that we can't change

And endings come to us

In ways that we can't rearrange



I love you, and you love me

But sometimes we must let it be

In the real world

In the real world



When we were dreaming heart to heart

I wish that we had stayed right there

For when the dreamers do awake

The dreams do disappear



If only we could always live in dreams

If only we could make of life

What, in dreams, it seems



But in the real world

We must say real goodbyes

No matter if the love will live

It will never die



In the real world

There are things that we can't change

And endings come to us

In ways that we can't rearrange



I love you, and you love me

But sometimes we must let it be

In the real world

In the real world