Download mp3 - Sonny : Jack Connolly
Sonny
was a space cadet,
A dreamer--some said a fool.
He stared at night into the sky
And slept all day in school.
He had a dream that one day
He would drift among the stars.
I guess some dreams are cages
That remind us who we are.
Climb, Sonny, Climb
Toward the sky
Someone’s gotta dream of heaven
Someone’s gotta try.
Climb, Sonny, Climb
To what could be.
How we gonna find the limits
If someone doesn’t dream?
NASA never learned of Sonny,
Who came from working stock.
He took a course in real estate
And subdivided lots.
At night he drank his whiskey straight--
Maybe dropped a pill or two--
And slid aboard his dreamer’s ship
Where he knew just who was who.
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Sometimes late at night I wake
And I dress and walk outside
I stand there in my driveway
And I stare into the sky.
And I think that here among us
There are galaxies of souls-
And I know my brother Sonny
Is a star in one of those.
Sonny traveled thirty years
Before his ship went down.
Then every hope and starlight dream
Exploded on the ground.
But before you cry for Sonny
Remember, if you can,
That here he could not touch his dream
And now, perhaps, he can.
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