John F. Kennedy Lyrics

I had a dream last night that troubled me

Involving John F. Kennedy

I got a drink of water, went back to bed

I couldn't get it out of my head

Lie-la-lie-la-lie-da-dee, Lie-la-lie-la-lie-da-dee

I came down a flight of stairs

And I saw him lying there

An undertaker standing by,

He was naked and about to die

As I gazed upon the face of death

JFK took one last breath

It was a desperate gasp that frightened me

Anguished and unearthly

Lie-la-lie-la-lie-da-dee, Goodbye John F. Kennedy

I saw terror in his eyes

As if he had realized

He had lived somebody else's life

And he was not prepared to die

Lie-la-lie-la-lie-la-lie

I believed it when my parents said

One day you could be president

The day I realized I was gay

That dream went sailing far away

I suppose I could have been

But there was no one out back then

I always wished that I was someone else

Somebody greater than myself

Someone adored by everyone

For everything that I had done

Always looking up from down below

To people that I didn't even know

Lie-la-lie-la-lie-da-dee, Lie-la-lie-la-lie-da-dee

What if that dream was trying to say

Something old was going away

Something that was dear to me

That it was gone and I was free

Something that was defining me

That it was gone and I was free

Lie-la-lie-la-lie-da-dee, Lie-la-lie-la-lie-da-dee

I had a dream last night that troubled me

Involving John F. Kennedy