Mary Chapin Carpenter - Only A Dream Lyrics
I can recall the sound of the windAs it blew throught the trees and the trees would bendI can recall the smell of the rainOn a hot summer nightComing through the screenId crawl in your bed when the lightning flashedAnd Id still be there when the storm had passedDead to the world, to the morning castIts light all around your roomWe lived on a street where the tall elm shadeWas as green as the grass and as cool as a bladeThat you held in your teeth as we lay on our backsStaring up at the blue and the blue stared backI used to believe we were just like those treesWed grown just as tall and as proud as we pleasedWith our feet on the ground and our arms in the breezeUnder a sheltering skyTwirl me about, and twirl me aroundLet me grow dizzy and fall to the groundAnd when I look up at you looking down,Say it was only a dreamA big truck was parked in the drive one dayThey wrapped us in paper and moved us awayYour room was no longer next door to mineAnd this kid sister thing was old by that timeBut oh how our dreams went bump in the nightAnd the voices downstairs getting into a fightAnd the next day a silence you could cut with a knifeAnd feel like a blade at your throatTwirl me about and twirl me aroundLet me grow dizzy and fall to the groundWhen I look up at you looking downSay it as only a dreamThe day you left home you got an early startI watched your car back out in the darkI opened the door to your room down the hallI turned on the lightAnd all that I sawWas a bed and a desk and couple of tacksNo sign of someone who expects to be backIt must have been one hell of a suitcase you packedTwirl me about, twirl me aroundLet me grow dizzy and fall to the groundWhen I look up at you looking downSay it was only a dream
