Some loves don’t arrive loudly.
They come quietly, in the middle of the night, like a melody you didn’t know you were listening for—until it’s already living inside your heart.

This song is one of many I’ve written for Joanne over the last twenty-plus years. Sometimes she’s the subject, sometimes the setting, sometimes just the gravity that keeps the song from floating away. By now, she’s appeared—directly or indirectly—in more than sixty songs. I stopped counting because the counting didn’t matter anymore.

What matters is this:
Love, when it’s real, becomes part of the architecture of your inner life.

These lyrics aren’t about romance as spectacle. They’re about devotion as residence—about choosing a heart to live inside, even when temptation knocks, even when the world offers shinier prizes. This song arrived the way the best ones do: unannounced, unforced, and fully formed. I didn’t chase it. I listened.

At its core, this is a song about choosing love over ambition, connection over noise, and presence over promise. It’s about waking at dawn and realizing the dream didn’t leave—it stayed.

Some songs try to impress.
This one simply tells the truth.

[Verse 1]
Dreams can live
Deep inside your heart
And last for a lifetime long
My dream lives in the rhythm of my heart
And beats in the lyrics of my song

[Verse 2]
Yes, it came in the night like a melody
And it sings in my heart, right or wrong
So now I reside in the walls of a heart
That listens for the dream inside my song

[Pre-Chorus]
Now, oh, if the devil came
Just to tempt me with fortune, fame, and stars
I’d have to say no if you couldn’t go
And it left me alone without your heart

[Chorus]
‘Cause dreams will come in the middle of the night
And find me with an angel here at dawn
So I’ve come to live in the walls of a heart
That listens for the dream inside my song

[Instrumental]

[Pre-Chorus]
Dreams will come to live inside your heart
And they’ll stay for a lifetime long
I have a dream that lives inside my heart
It came with an angel and a song

[Chorus]
Oh, it came in the night like a melody
And it lives in the lyrics that I sing
So I’ve come to live in the walls of a heart
That dances through the fabric of my dream

Yes, I’ve come to live in the walls of a heart
That dances through the fabric of my dream

[Outro]
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