When I Stop Dreaming – George Jones

When I stop dreaming
That’s when I’ll stop wanting you.

The worst that I’ve ever been hurt in my life
The first time I ever have wanted to die
Was the night when you told me you loved someone else
And asked me if I could forget.

When I stop dreaming
That’s when I’ll stop thinking you.

I’d be like a flower unwanted in spring
Alone and neglected, transplanted in vain
To a garden of sadness where it’s pedals would fall
In the shadow of undying pain.

When I stop dreaming
That’s when I’ll stop loving you.

You may teach the flowers to bloom in the snow
You may take a pebble and teach it to grow
You may teach all the raindrops to return to the clouds
But you can’t teach my heart to forget.

When I stop dreaming
That’s when I’ll stop loving you