Lyrics
Bittersweet Dream / Rick Demers
There’s a farmhouse and a red barn along Green Mountain creek
Pretty as a “Rockwell”, for sale as we speak
So the saying goes what you reap is what you sow
This time a good harvest was also bittersweet
Beneath the big red maple, Peter seems unable
To move in any way shape or form
Half expecting her to join him, left alone instead he grieves
Heartbroken, in a swirl of falling leaves
Tears roll down his cheeks, as late day shadows creep
Along Lucinda’s pretty post rail fence
He sees himself there digging, sees her paint every beam
Hears the children sing, life is but a dream
Bittersweet dream, bittersweet dream
So close you can taste it, so close you could scream
There for the taking, just out of reach
Bittersweet dream, bittersweet dream
The farm finally turned a profit, she’s not here to see it
A windfall year for butter squash and beans
But the lean years took their toll, broke her sprit left her cold
She up and left taking nothing save his soul
Bittersweet dream, bittersweet dream
So close you can taste it, so close you could scream
There for the taking, just out of reach
Bittersweet, bittersweet dream
A last look at her garden, he spies a lonely pumpkin
Sole survivor of last night’s killing frost
Snowcaps on the mountains and the Champlain wind howling
Say come morning, Peter like Lucinda will be gone
Bittersweet dream, bittersweet dream
So close you can taste it, so close you could scream
There for the taking, just out of reach
Bittersweet, bittersweet dream