Only A Dream-Mary Chapin Carpenter

[ti:Only A Dream] [ar:Mary Chapin Carpenter] [al:The Essential Mary Chapin Carp] [by:] [offset:0] [00:12.99]I can recall the sound of the wind [00:18.11]As it blew through the trees and the trees would bend [00:24.55]I can recall the smell of the rain [00:29.86]On a hot summer night Coming through the screen [00:36.11]I'd crawl in your bed when the lightning flashed [00:42.05]And I'd still be there [00:44.61]When the storm had passed Dead to the world [00:50.61]To the morning cast [00:54.17]Its light all around your room [01:00.55]We lived on a street where the tall elm shade [01:06.30]Was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade [01:12.49]That you held in your teeth as [01:15.30]We lay on our backs Staring up [01:21.05]At the blue and the blue stared back [01:24.12]I used to believe we were just like those trees [01:30.86]We'd grown just as tall and as proud as [01:35.05] [01:37.11]We pleased With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze [01:44.05] [01:49.80]Under a sheltering sky Twirl me about [01:56.07]And twirl me around Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground [01:59.94]And when I look up at you looking down [02:08.44]Say it was only a dream [02:14.76]A big truck was parked in the drive one day [02:20.56]They wrapped us in paper and moved us away [02:26.56]Your room was no longer next door to mine [02:32.57]And this kid sister thing was old by that time [02:38.57]But oh how our dreams went bump in the night [02:44.58]And the voices downstairs getting into a fight [02:50.64]And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife [02:57.33]And feel like a blade at your throat [03:03.64]Twirl me about and twirl me around [03:09.83]Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground [03:16.45]When I look up at you looking down [03:22.89]Say it as only a dream The day you [03:40.76] [03:47.05]Left home you got an early start [03:51.61] [03:53.36]I watched your car back out in the dark [04:00.11]I opened the door to your room down the hall [04:06.11]I turned on the light And all that [04:13.11]I saw Was a bed and a desk and couple of tacks [04:19.50]No sign of someone who expects to be back [04:26.62]It must have been one hell of a suitcase you packed [04:40.50]Twirl me about twirl me around [04:46.50]Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground [04:53.31]When I look up at you looking down [04:57.88]Say it was only a dream