Keep Dreaming

It's the final day of autumn
I've shown them they can fight
But can I carry their spirit through
Another foggy night?

When I look into the ocean
An imposter's staring back
I played myself, betrayed myself
Leave the old Lee
In the past

Keep dreaming and telling your story
Keep believing 'til it's finally true and we'll
Break even, it's all guts and no glory
Plant the seeds, someday the garden will bloom

Keep dreaming and telling your story
Keep believing 'til it's finally true and we'll
Break even, it's all guts and no glory
Plant the seeds, someday the garden will bloom
Plant the seeds, someday the garden will bloom

Remember how you'd roam around your war torn home town
Repeating that you'd go to Gold Mountain and promised to bring a piece back
No matter how they'd beat back Chinese with these acts?
'Cause when you went to sea that day you couldn't see that
Days of wind and waves would place you in a cage
For Asians, could angels really make a racist prison in the bay?
I saw our spirits floating out the slats of the cage
Humiliated, bodies dropping every day but

Remember how you scraped together all you had
How you planned a clever farewell to your family but choked up first
Your tears flowing together the last time you saw them
And you promised them the world
Don't you forget that

Look out through these rigid steel bars, it's Oakland
Across those frigid green waters we soak in the sun
The moment it comes, our moment to run, the morning will come, we've only begun
To shine
Do not forget this day when you land ashore

Keep dreaming and telling your story
Keep believing 'til it's finally true and we'll
Break even, it's all guts and no glory
Plant the seeds, someday the garden will bloom

Keep dreaming (And when the world has got you on your knees)
And telling your story (You can't afford to be your enemy)
(You belong on the roster, check again and see) Keep believing 'til it's finally true and we'll
(We're all around you now, your friends are many)
Break even (You lost it all and fallen to your knees?)
It's all guts and no glory (Don't forget that you're your best friend, please)
(You're on the roster, check again and see) Plant the seeds someday the garden will bloom
(We're all around you now, your friends are many
You're on the roster, check again and see
We're all around you now, your friends are many)

Keep dreaming and telling your story
Keep believing 'til it's finally true and we'll
Break even, it's all guts and no glory
Plant the seeds, someday the garden will bloom

Keep dreaming and telling your story
Keep believing 'til it's finally true and we'll
Break even, it's all guts and no glory
Plant the seeds, someday the garden will bloom
Plant the seeds, someday the garden will bloom