Only A Dream

[Verse] I can recall the sound of the wind   As it blew through the trees and the trees would bend 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 to the morning cast 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 grown 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 [Chorus] 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 [Verse] 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 And 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 [Chorus] 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 [Verse] 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 couple of tacks No sign of someone who expects to be back It must have been one hell of a suitcase you packed [Chorus] 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