This Dream

for soprano and piano, text by Heidi Decker

(2018) Duration: 7:00

PURCHASE

Performance by Katherine Calcamuggio Donner (mezzo-soprano) and Naomi Oliphant (piano)

Without the scrolling score…

I HATE THIS DREAM
from “This Dream”  by Heidi Decker
(adaptation by Steve Rouse)  

I hate this dream.
This stupid dream!  

I look to be twenty years older,
In this dank little house.
I'm always just sitting in this chair,
Looking out the window.
Or cooking. Or scrubbing. Or covering my face.
This isn't my face.
My face is beautiful.
My face is flawless.
I hate this dream.
This stupid dream.  

Well, it just doesn't matter.
This dream has nothing to do with me.
Soon enough I'll wake up.
This isn't my life.
My life is nothing like this.
I don't look like this,
Or behave like this,
Or allow anyone to treat me as if....
I hate this dream.  

I'm so much smarter than this.
I'm young.
I have dreams.
I have potential.
I have my whole life ahead of me.
I hate this dream.
This stupid dream!   

I'm ready to wake up now.
I mean it.
I want to wake up now.
Please God, let me wake up!   

I hate this dream.
I hate this dream.