Only A Dream

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I can recall the sound of the wind
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As it blew through the trees and the trees would bend
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I can recall the smell of the rain
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On a hot summer night
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Coming through the screen
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I'd crawl in your bed when the lightning flashed
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And I'd still be there when the storm had passed
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Dead to the world, to the morning cast
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Its light all around your room

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We lived on a street where the tall elm shade
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Was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade
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That you held in your teeth as we lay on our backs
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Staring up at the blue and the blue stared back
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I used to believe we were just like those trees
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We'd grown just as tall and as proud as we pleased
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With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze
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Under a sheltering sky

[Chorus]
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Twirl me about, and twirl me around
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Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
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And when I look up at you looking down,
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Say it was only a dream

[Verse]
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A big truck was parked in the drive one day
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They wrapped us in paper and moved us away
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Your room was no longer next door to mine
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And this kid sister thing was old by that time
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But oh how our dreams went bump in the night
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And the voices downstairs getting into a fight
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And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife
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And feel like a blade at your throat

[Chorus]
Am       F#7         D7        Em7
Twirl me about, and twirl me around
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Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
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And when I look up at you looking down,
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Say it was only a dream

[Verse]
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The day you left home you got an early start
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I watched your car back out in the dark
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I opened the door to your room down the hall
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I turned on the light
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And all that I saw
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Was a bed and a desk and couple of tacks
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No sign of someone who expects to be back
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It must have been one hell of a suitcase you packed

[Chorus]
Am       F#7         D7        Em7
Twirl me about, and twirl me around
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Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
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And when I look up at you looking down,
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Say it was only a dream