Country. Song: When Dreams Fade.

Time keeps moving like a river flowing
Past the places where I used to know
Every face that's walked beside me
Every road that led me home

Seventeen with gravel dust on my Sunday dress
Dancing in the headlights of your daddy's Chevrolet
You promised me forever in the summer heat
Now I'm holding onto yesterday
These fading dreams keep calling out my name
Like autumn leaves they scattered in the rain

Twenty-five with a wedding ring and morning sickness
Building up a life on borrowed time
But the bank came calling and the bills kept falling
Left our little house behind
These fading dreams keep calling out my name
Like autumn leaves they scattered in the rain

Oh, fading dreams, you haunt me still
Like photographs upon my windowsill
Though life has taught me to let go
There's parts of you I'll always know
Fading dreams, you made me who I am
Even when I don't understand

Thirty-three with babies crying in the darkness
Working double shifts to make ends meet
Mama's voice keeps echoing through my tired mind
"Girl, don't you forget to believe"
These fading dreams keep calling out my name
Like autumn leaves they scattered in the rain

Forty-one watching children pack their college boxes
Empty rooms where laughter used to ring
All those bedtime stories and the scraped-up knees
Wonder what tomorrow's gonna bring
These fading dreams keep calling out my name
Like autumn leaves they scattered in the rain

Oh, fading dreams, you haunt me still
Like photographs upon my windowsill
Though life has taught me to let go
There's parts of you I'll always know
Fading dreams, you made me who I am
Even when I don't understand

Sometimes when the sun sets on this dusty town
I can see them rising from the ground
All the wishes that I buried deep
All the promises I couldn't keep
But maybe that's the beauty of it all
Learning how to rise up from the fall

These fading dreams are calling out my name
Not like autumn leaves scattered in the rain
But like spring flowers pushing through the snow
Teaching me which way I need to go

Fifty-five with grandkids on my weathered porch
Telling them the stories that my mama told
How the heart remembers what the mind forgets
How the young grow brave and the brave grow old
These fading dreams are calling out my name
Teaching me that nothing stays the same

Looking at this woman in the bathroom mirror
Silver in her hair and lines around her eyes
She's been through the fire and she's still standing
Learned the art of saying her goodbyes
These fading dreams are calling out her name
Reminding her she's stronger than her shame

Sixty-seven at the funeral parlor
Saying farewell to the man I used to know
He was seventeen when we were dancing
Now he's gone where wildflowers grow
These fading dreams are calling out my name
Like summer rain washing away the pain
Oh, fading dreams, you haunt me still
Like photographs upon my windows