He is down by the riverside Late one night He's tryin' to count the stars In each of the signs All alone by the riverside And time pa**es by Gathering thoughts of the past And maybe he'll cry So they say he's a madman And he don't understand But i know that he's tryin' hard To act like a man
All those years he has suffered, My friends All those years of pain But i don't think he knows for shure If those years were in vain He's a dreamer But he's fightin' for his life He's tryin' to understand He's a dreamer But he wants to carry on And I know he's a lonely man