In dreams we do so many things 
We set aside the rules we know 
And fly the world so high 
In great and shining rings 

If only we could always live in dreams 
If only we could make of life 
What, in dreams, it seems 

But in the real world 
We must say real goodbyes 
No matter if the love will live 
It will never die 

In the real world 
There are things that we can't change 
And endings come to us 
In ways that we can't rearrange 

I love you, and you love me 
But sometimes we must let it be 
In the real world 
In the real world 

When we were dreaming heart to heart 
I wish that we had stayed right there 
For when the dreamers do awake 
The dreams do disappear 

If only we could always live in dreams 
If only we could make of life 
what, in dreams, it seems 

But in the real world 
We must say real goodbyes 
No matter if the love will live 
It will never die 

In the real world 
There are things that we can't change 
And endings come to us 
In ways that we can't rearrange 

I love you, and you love me 
But sometimes we must let it be 
In the real world 
In the real world