Only A Dream

<br>I can recall the sound of the wind,<br>as it blew through the trees and the trees would bend<br>And I can recall the smell of the rain<br>on a hot summer night coming through the screen<br>I`d crawl in your bed when the lightning flashed<br>and I`d still be there when the storm had passed<br>Dead to the world till the morning casts<br>its light all around your room<br>We lived on a street where the tall elm shade<br>was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade<br>That you held in your teeth as we lay on our backs<br>staring up at the blue, and the blue stared back<br>I used to believe we were just like those trees,<br>we`d grow just as tall and as proud as we pleased<br>With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze<br>under a sheltering sky<br>(chorus:)<br>Twirl me about and twirl me around<br>Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground<br>And when I look up at you looking down<br>Say it was only a dream<br>A big truck was parked in the drive one day<br>They wrapped us in paper and moved us away<br>Your room was no longer next door to mine<br>This kid sister thing was old by that time<br>But oh how our dreams went bump in the night<br>and the voices downstairs getting into a fight<br>And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife<br>and feel like a blade at your throat<br>(chorus)<br>The day you left home you got an early start<br>I watched your car back out in the dark<br>I opened the door to your room down the hall<br>I turned on the light and all that I saw<br>Was a bed and a desk and a couple of tacks<br>No sign of someone who expects to be back<br>It must`ve been one hell of a suitcase you packed<br>(chorus)