For years now I've been trying to find this song. All I had was the first verse and a half.
Lost in a life of luxury
Livin' out all your fantasies
I've been down since you went away
It wasn't love, but it felt okay
My head is numb; I've been up all night
I stood there seein' the mornin' light
I would try and sing it and of course that just got me those odd cocked head dog looks. Mary pretty much had me convinced that it was some drug-induced hallucination from my younger days. I hallucinated a power ballad? Is that possible?
Well, it seemed to make sense in context.
Anyway I found the song by doing an advanced google search of the key lyrics that I had... Turns out it was on a solo album by one of the guys in Boston. The song is called "Dreams" track 06 on the self-titled Barry Goudreau Release: 1980 (Re-released: 1996).
So I feel a little better now. It's not that I didn't want to look back at my teenage drug use and think that I couldn't have written an imaginary power ballad, I just didn’t think I would've wrote that one.