Carpenter Mary-chapin Only A Dream Lyrics

Only A Dream Lyrics

I can recall the sound of the wind, 

 as it blew through the trees and the trees would bend

 And I can recall the smell of the rain 

 on a hot summer night coming through the screen

 I'd crawl in your bed when the lightning flashed

 and I'd still be there when the storm had passed

 Dead to the world till the morning casts 

 its light all around your room

 

 We lived on a street where the tall elm shade

 was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade

 That you held in your teeth as we lay on our backs

 staring up at the blue, and the blue stared back

 I used to believe we were just like those trees,

 we'd grow just as tall and as proud as we pleased

 With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze

 under a sheltering sky

 

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 Twirl me about and twirl me around

 Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground

 And when I look up at you looking down

 Say it was only a dream

 

 A big truck was parked in the drive one day

 They wrapped us in paper and moved us away

 Your room was no longer next door to mine

 This kid sister thing was old by that time

 But oh how our dreams went bump in the night

 and the voices downstairs getting into a fight

 And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife

 and feel like a blade at your throat

 

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 The day you left home you got an early start

 I watched your car back out in the dark

 I opened the door to your room down the hall

 I turned on the light and all that I saw

 Was a bed and a desk and a couple of tacks

 No sign of someone who expects to be back

 It must've been one hell of a suitcase you packed

 

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