Only A Dream (CHORDS) by Mary Chapin Carpenter

[Verse]~
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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

C            Bm7       C            D
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground

G             D        C             G
And when I look up at you looking down,..

C        D          G
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

C            Bm7       C            D
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground

G             D        C             G
And when I look up at you looking down,..

C        D          G
Say it was only a dream