Right to Dream

If you think the title is a Five for Fighting reference, you are correct.

Right to Dream
They can take away our right to read
Or just burn all the books
Or force us to dress modestly
Or if not, see who looks
The rules can tell us not to print
Or state uncouth ideals
Or choose for us which coins to mint
Or even choose our meals
The church can excommunicate
The country set up jails
But one small thing, nor church nor state
Controls, it always fails

Beyond all speech and art and rule
Is all that you could be
Not what you are, or how in school,
But hypothetically,
All that you've got inside of you
Your mind, your heart, your soul
And all that you can dream of too
Those they can never toll

And yet with all our rights today
We've lost something it seems
Despite our opportunities
I sense a lack of dreams
We somehow think we're happiest
If rich, or quite well known
We claim not to care how we're dressed
But worry on our own
Something about society
Has taught us to restrain
Our dreams to what we think can't be
And life to something plain

It's funny how a dream goes on,
Just dancing through the trees
Ready to have a little fun
A product of the breeze
And yet we all insist that life
Is lived a certain way
You'll go through college, be a wife,
And things will be okay
But God forbid that you should think
Of something so extreme
As to your thoughts with actions link
And follow some great dream

Some will follow, some will lead
But neither calls to me
For I must combine thought and deed
To live completely free