Gripp - How to Build a Boat lyrics

It came to me in a dream: A place to escape and be free Away from the city and the stress A vision of the waves and the sea Ocean cradles me like a hand A cupped palm, the expanse On the deck of this ship Serene where I stand This is a home that I made Pounded every nail into place Painted the mast with my sweat I laid every board, every plank I could smell the salt, hear the noise The swell of the sound, feel the poise So I set to work It didn't feel like a choice Yo... Everybody knows of this, the way it feels When a dream appears it's so vivid that you think that it's real And the truth stings as you peel back the bandage and you awake And try grasping for the dream so it never escapes But it's getting away. You won't let it, but you can't help it And everything that it represented has started melting A puddle is forming and everything seems so foreign The only thing that you can think to do is move toward it It felt so vague when I woke My vision of the waves and the boat It felt like such a lark But it felt like hope Knew not how to design or to build No talent and no sk** No blueprints and no plans Pure expression of will I can't explain what I learned How it raised from the dirt The frames that collapsed The times that I wasted the work All I did was focus Through feeling hopeless 'til the mast stretched high My magnum opus Yo... Everybody is building something, a labor of love That's coming together. We hope we're capable of All the crazy stuff we imagine. Is it too much to fathom? Is our pa**ion enough to carry us over the hill and back? And we want it so badly, give pieces of ourselves to have it Like it's all that will make us happy and we're off to the races, laughing The inauguration is fast and we've all tasted the tragedy So when it works out, we're ecstatic so automatically So it came to stand From my own hands Brought it down to the shore Toes curled in the sand I pushed out on its weight Sailed it out in the bay I felt the wind in my hair Felt the mist on my face So when the storm clouds gathered I didn't think that it mattered Until the lightning struck Until I saw the mast shatter I swam back to the beach Then turned back to the sea To watch what I worked for sink To watch the d**h of my dream Now, now, now. Dreams don't come true, come true No. You have to make them happen You have to want to, want to Begin the chain reaction Now, now. Dreams don't come true, come true No. You have to shape the package You have to want to, want to Watch them burn to ashes Now!