Welcome to the Dream Shop

[Intro — Whisper / Female] On a night when rain was falling, something waited in the dark. A door that no one ever noticed, until you needed it. [Verse 1 — Male, soft] If someone offered you a dream tonight, would you take it without asking why? No more waiting, no more wishing, no more tears beneath the sky. Just give away the time you have, the years that still belong to you. And take the thing your heart has wanted, the dream you thought would never come true. [Female Soprano — distant] Somnia… somnia… Vita tua… pro somnio… [Chorus — Female Opera + Choir] Close your eyes, let the dream carry you away. Love and fortune, everything your heart desires. Close your eyes, don’t ask what you have to pay. Inside the dream, everything becomes real. [Instrumental — Piano + Violin + Cello] [Verse 2 — Male] She found the one she’d waited for, a home beneath a golden sky. The laughter that she’d lost before was finally coming back to life. And when happiness is standing there, who would stop to count the cost? When every dream is in your hands, who would care about what’s lost? [Female Soprano — rising] Tempus fugit… Somnium manet… [Chorus — Bigger Orchestra] Buy your love with borrowed time, buy your dreams with pieces of your life. The more your heart desires, the closer comes the final night. But tonight… don’t wake just yet. Let the dream go on forever. For no one knows when morning comes, or whether they will wake again. [Bridge — almost silent] Then the telephone begins to ring… in the silence of the night. A voice whispers: “Your payment is due.” [Full Opera — Female + Male + Choir] Time to wake from the dream, time to give back what you borrowed. Every moment you were given, had a price you never saw. The dream was real… The happiness was real… But your time… is gone. [Final — Female Soprano, very soft] Dormi… Non svegliarti… Sleep now… don’t wake… For sometimes… the dream is better than the truth. [Whisper — fading] Welcome… to the Dream Shop.