It's The Same Old Dream

 

Written by:  Sammy Cahn

Written by:  Jule Styne

Arranged By:  Axel Stordahl – Axel Stordahl - Nelson Riddle

From the Album:  This Is Sinatra, Vol. 2  (1958)

The Capitol Years, Disc 2

From the Film:  It Happened In Brooklyn  (1947)

Label:  MGM – Columbia – Capitol

Recorded:  9/27/46 – 10/24/46 – 11/25/57

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I can see a steeple, surrounded by people -

Oh how real it all starts to seem.

Just as the choir is singing, my alarm starts ringing.

It's the same old dream.

 

And then my thoughts inspire a scene by the fire,

In a cottage close by a stream.

I know it all by heart now - we're about to part now.

It's the same old dream.

 

If you but knew

How many times I pretend that I'm with you

I'm sure your heart would unbend.

You'd see me through

Until my dream had a happy ending

 

And I can picture clearly those things I love dearly -

In the center you reign supreme.

We kiss and I discover I'm a lonesome lover.

It's the same old dream

 

(Musical Interlude)

 

We kiss and I discover I'm a lonesome lover.

It's the same old dream.