These are the lyrics to the song “Fight On Forever (Where Dreams Never Die”), my original composition for my novel’s soundtrack. The music is also posted below. Have fun figuring out where the lyrics go!
“Fight On Forever (Where Dreams Never Die”)
by William A. Hainline
He was a troubled daydream dreamer, with a tendency to fantasize
She was a superheroine femme fatale who went ahead and blew his mind
And then they flew away on star streams, in a flying saucer built for two
And they went on crazy adventures then, the kind I now propose to you
They were a troupe of messed up misfits, with a tendency to blow things up,
They met a magick user all dressed in black, and his evil plan it really sucked
Well they faced him down one night at, a convention with inventions and
They kicked his evil arse so hard, he flew half the way to Mars . . .
Vampires and werewolves and dragons and demons
And things that go bump in the night
They don’t compare to this prison of labor and its lack of dreaming light
Taxes and interviews, my kid’s sick with stomach flu
I pray the gods deliver me, the Nothing comes tonight!
When the darkness is all around you
And all your dreams lie shattered in the parking lot of life
When all your precious gods are dead
And hope is just another word
Just come on now just follow me, pick up your vorpal sword!
Just come on now just follow me, pick up your vorpal sword!
Fighting forever against the Mundane
We don’t give a damn if you think we’re insane
We’re kicking ass and taking names ‘til neverland’s last light
We’ll fight on forever where dreams never die!
We’ll fight on forever where dreams never die!
We’ll fight on forever where dreams never—
Never in life have we ever fit in
Forever outside in the fire have we been
For wonderland, for D&D, for Wizards of the Cost
Just pick up a sword now and let’s raise a toast!
To magic and mayhem, let reality go
To magic and mayhem, let reality go
Be a civilized young person, was what I was taught in school
But when we civilize we traumatize, the child inside of me and you,
So come on roll the dice and ride on, hear motorbikes and broomsticks roar
We got to stop the vacuum of daily life, before it sucks away our power
We gotta keep the home fires burning, for the generations yet to come
We gotta keep the truth of fantasy, alive for when all hope is lost, and death is all we can see
We gotta fight the evil Nothing, as it claws and bites and it devours
We gotta bust out of this prison cell, before it sucks away cool factor….
Blowing up temples where people all grovel
And worship Mundanity
We gotta give them all somethin’ that’s cooler and better
And not all the same…
Mortgages and real life
The real world is awful flat . . .
I pray the gods deliver me
To healing fantasy!
When the darkness is all around you
And all you’re the magic’s fled,
When all your dreams are all but dead
When hope is just another word
And all the good is gone…
Just be the hero that you seek and strive to carry on!
Just be the hero that you seek and strive to carry on!
Fighting forever against the Mundane
We don’t give a damn if you think we’re insane
We’re kicking ass and taking names ‘til neverland’s last light
We’ll fight on forever where dreams they never die
We’ll fight on forever where dreams never die
We’ll fight on forever where dreams never—
Never in life have we ever fit in
Forever outside in the fire have we been
For wonderland, for D&D, for Wizards of the Cost
Just pick up a sword now and let’s raise a toast!
To magic and mayhem, and for last night’s bright ghost!
Just chase down your dreams, let reality go
Fighting forever against the Mundane
We don’t give a damn if you think we’re insane
We’re kicking names and taking ass, aw shit, I blew that line
But I’ll still fight on where our dreams never die
We’ll fight on forever where dreams don’t ever die
We’ll fight on forever where dreams never . . .
Fight on for Stan Lee and Buffy, B-5,
Fight on for Magic, the Gathering, let’s ride;
For neverland, for cosplay, and for getting hammer-smashed;
Come on now and let’s kick Mundanity’s ass!
For magic and mayhem, our very last breath!
We’ll fight on forever where dreams don’t know death!