BITTERSWEET MIRAGE - Devastating Song About Chasing Dreams - Contemporary Folk Rock

This song is about chasing dreams that turn out to be trivial in the end. Dreams can excite. Or another way to look at it is when we are excited, it's easy to believe in a vision, and give yourself to it. But ultimately, in case of most dreams, we end up doing a lot of work to get to them just to realize that in the end they were not as they seemed.

This song also has a devastating realization: we go through great suffering if we think it will bring us meaning. If you think about it, most of what we do requires a tremendous amount of effort: college degree, daily work, exercise, etc. But we only do it when we think it will bring us something good. So this song really hits at something we all deal with.

This song was inspired by The Myth Of Sisyphus who was punished by Greek gods to do meaningless work for the rest of his life. The song didn't end up being about that, but the idea of the song is that you see a vision or a goal, and you spend your whole life chasing it, just for it to turn out trivial in the end.

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LYRICS:

CHORUS 1:

And you’ll go through great suffering
Thinking it will give you meaning

VERSE 1

She made a wish and blew a dandelion
The petals flew far, kept on flying
He ran to catch the petals and ended up
Stumbling through his whole life’s map

VERSE 2

That first moment meant something to him
For her it was a whim
He fell in love with a vision fantasized
Imagination can cost a heavy prize

CHORUS 2

When tired, and it’s late - and visions meditate
See a future great - hallucinate
You’ll go through suffering
Thinking it will give you meaning

VERSE 3

He imagined that her dandelion
Would finally make her soul stop sighing
Only in hindsight, you know
Life never ties up in a bow

CHORUS 3

When tired, and it’s late - and visions meditate
You see a future great - hallucinate
And you’ll go through (great) suffering
Thinking it will give you meaning

BRIDGE

Thoughts enchant - visions flash
Fall in love with a beautiful mirage
Chasing dreams you can almost see
in the mind - not reality

VERSE 4

When he brought back that dandelion
There was no girl, his memory was lying
No crowds lifting him on his throne
he’s always been alone - alone.