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Dream Again
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Oct 1, 2026 updated
All In album
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Song Meaning
Matthew West builds the verses around a list of specific moments when hope stopped — a divorce, an infertility diagnosis, a failed rehab attempt — each one named concretely rather than left vague. "I know the plans that I have for you, a hope and a future" quotes Jeremiah 29:11 directly, repeated enough times that the promise becomes the song's own answer to every scenario listed before it.
"Take one last look at who you were, and now let me show you who you still can be" reaches for 2 Corinthians 5:17's claim that "if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation... the old things have passed away." The closing verse answers each earlier moment of loss with a corresponding moment of restoration — a wedding, a whispered reassurance, an adopted child, a surrendered knee — pairing every specific wound with an equally specific healing.
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One stopped on the day she heard him say
"I don't love you anymore"
One stopped on the front porch, 6 years old
Watching dad walk out the door
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
And dream again
One stopped when the doctors said,
"You'll never have a baby of your own"
And one stopped after two attempts at rehab
Couldn't help him get control
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
And dream again
Dream again
Your lungs are still breathing
Your heart is still beating
The end's where the future begins
Just open your eyes
Open your eyes
And dream again
All your would've beens, your could've beens, your should've beens
Just give 'em all to me
Take one last look at who you were
And now let me show you who you still can be
Open your eyes
Just open your eyes
And dream again
Come on and dream again
Your lungs are still breathing
Your heart is still beating
The end's where the future begins
Open your eyes
Just open your eyes
And dream again
I know the plans that I have for you
A hope and a future, a future
I know the plans that I have for you
A hope and a future, a future
I know the plans that I have for you
A hope and a future, a future
Yes I know the plans that I have for you
A hope and a future
Just open your eyes
Open your eyes
And dream again
One starts at the altar where "I'll never love again" becomes "I do"
One starts with a whisper, child, you've always had a Father here with you
And one starts with a baby in the backseat that they thought they'd never be bringing home
And one starts down on bended knee crying, "Jesus, I finally see, I can't beat this on my own"
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
And dream again