I wrote this song in early 2018 when DACA recipients were at risk of being deported; I’m still hoping the premise of the song will become obsolete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DREAMERS<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Last night, I had a dream where they\u2019re in hot pursuit<\/p>\n\n\n\n I scramble through the brambles in the deep piney woods<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hide in a cave that I found long ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n And watch as the ICE men run past me below<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the beginning I\u2019ve called Texas home<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only home that I\u2019ve ever known<\/p>\n\n\n\n Raised near these piney wood forest of trees<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dreaming big dreams of what I want to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n They won\u2019t find me today, they won\u2019t find me tonight<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I won\u2019t leave my home without a fight<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I worry as darkness slips into night<\/p>\n\n\n\n Am I watching my dreams fade from sight?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dad was a dreamer, but worked hard all his life<\/p>\n\n\n\n Came to East Texas with 2 kids and a wife<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turned this red mud into pastures of green<\/p>\n\n\n\n Showed me what you can do when you follow your dream<\/p>\n\n\n\n They call us the dreamers, they say \u201csend them back home\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to a place that we\u2019ve never known<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t you see, you\u2019re no different than me<\/p>\n\n\n\n We all have a right to our dreams!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I made it through college while working 2 jobs<\/p>\n\n\n\n They said I was smart but I worked really hard<\/p>\n\n\n\n I did all I could \u2013 I played by the rules<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now I\u2019m a teacher in one of your schools<\/p>\n\n\n\n They call us the dreamers, they say \u201csend them back home\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to a place that we\u2019ve never known<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t you see, you\u2019re no different than me<\/p>\n\n\n\n We all have a right to our dreams!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We live in your town; we work in your stores<\/p>\n\n\n\n We go to your church, and we fight in your wars<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, we\u2019re part of your community<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why is this so hard for you to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why is this so hard for you to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n They call us the dreamers, they say \u201csend them back home\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to a place that we\u2019ve never known<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t you see, you\u2019re no different than me<\/p>\n\n\n\n We all have a right to our dreams!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote this song in early 2018 when DACA recipients were at risk of being deported; I’m still hoping the premise of the song will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}