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Blow Beautiful Dreams

from Waiting by Doug Hoekstra

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"…Waiting is best summed up as the folk album T.S. Eliot, Charles Bukowski and F. Scott Fitzgerald never got together to make with Brian Wilson…" (Mike Davies, Netrhythms UK)

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Blow Beautiful Dreams

12 below, Christmas Day
Idle chatter fills the train
Steam rises from an iron grate
Outside the window miles away

Seems everywhere I go has a familiar feel
Yet to none of it I belong
And when I find something I think is real
I blink my eyes and then it’s gone

Blow beautiful dreams, blackened by the weather
Blow beautiful dreams, until we are together
Blow beautiful dreams

I hear a violin soft and sweet
Sounds echo through a deserted street
My expectations get the best of me
I put them on a shelf I can never reach

She’s stopped by her reflection
Checks out her makeup and her hair
And the glass shines in all directions
She’s looking for something that’s already there

Blow beautiful dreams…

The sun beats down on Christmas Day
But it cannot melt the ice away
And who will come to bear the weight
Of all the thoughts we hold at bay

All these kisses on the cheek
The smell of cinnamon potpourri
And the void that always lies between
Who we are and how we’re seen

Blow beautiful dreams…

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from Waiting, released January 1, 2003
Doug Hoekstra - acoustic & electric guitar, basses, drum, keyboards, vocals

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Doug Hoekstra Nashville, Tennessee

Doug Hoekstra’s singular musical persona sets sympathetic narratives against understated vocals, memorable melodies, and subtle but unexpected arrangement turns. His albums have earned Nashville Music Award and Independent Music Award nominations, a bevy of top 10 list appearances, and a reputation as a “songwriter’s songwriter” (CMJ Music Monthly). "The Day Deserved" due out Spring 2021 ... more

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