Nanci Griffith - Before lyrics

I dreamed of Louisiana And a night in Lafayette We had breakfast with Susanna We were young and wild and left (chorus) What's different here than in that dream and in reality Is we weren't afraid to fail in love and we all believed in the dream Before I dreamed of Manhattan In a time before this war It was snowing down on Bleecker Street It was before you were a star (chorus) Now everything is twilight It's a time too dark to see It's fear of being what we were And pondering the dream Then I dreamed of Texas And the Gulf Coast shores I dreamed of who we used to be And the hope we had before (chorus)