You’ve Gotta Have a Dream

You gotta have a dream

Just like a dishwasher needs a dish
You gotta have a wish
Just like a theme park needs a theme
You gotta have a dream
If you don't have a passion
Choose whatever's in fashion
In cocktail conversation
It gives you something to say

Just like a stamp needs an envelope
You gotta have hope (You gotta have hope)
Like a button needs a hole
You gotta have a goal
You need something to flail at (something to fail)
Something for you to fail at
A star up there to stare at
From millions of miles away

It's essential, it's detrimental
If you don't want something monumental
You must want something you don't have
Some crazy creed
Something just beyond your reach
Some luscious peach you'll never bite
Some delight you'll never know
Something to blow

A dream will help define you
Helps the critics confine you
Gives a value to assign you
That's the game you've got to play

Just like a stripper needs a pole
You gotta have a goal (You gotta have a goal)
Like a football needs a team
You gotta have a dream
(You gotta have a dream)
Like an anorexic needs self esteem
Like a Russian needs to take a steam
Like a salmon needs to swim upstream
You gotta have a dream (You gotta have a dream)
You gotta have a dream (You gotta have a dream)
You gotta have a dream
You gotta have a dream