00:00I took his voice in the song. I obviously took a great deal of license by doing that, but I
00:07was trying to, I guess, express things that I imagined, as well as sort of putting him in a context,
00:13making up a story as to where he might have come from.
00:24The marvelous and somewhat poignant part of all this is that since that song came out, I've been contacted by
00:30some of the people who took care of him, and they've been able to fill in some of the real
00:34details, and they said that he was much loved by everyone who took care of him.
00:39And that really did make me feel like this person had a life, and it did count for something, and
00:43he was not invisible.
00:46Sometimes songs can lead you to those places. It's a magical kind of thing.
01:01The thing that separates Chapin, she can decode loneliness like very few people can.
01:06Only a Dream is a song about one of my sisters and I.
01:10We were really close as kids, and that's specifically what the song is about.
01:15It's about trying to hold real hard to memories and not being able to sometimes.
01:20I can recall the sound of the wind
01:27As it blew through the trees
01:31And the trees would bend
01:34And I can recall the smell of the rain
01:41On a hot summer night
01:45Coming through the screen
01:48I'd crawl in your bed
01:52I'd crawl in your bed
01:53When the lightning flashed
01:57And I'd still be there
02:00When the storm had passed
02:05Dead to the world
02:08Till the morning cast
02:11It's light all around
02:16Your room
02:20We lived on a street
02:23Where the tall elm shade
02:26Was as green as the grass
02:30And as cool as a blade
02:33That you held in your teeth
02:37That you held in your teeth
02:38As we lay on our backs
02:41Staring up at the blue
02:45And the blue stared back
02:49I used to believe
02:53We were just like those trees
02:56We'd grow just as tall
03:01And as proud as we pleased
03:05With our feet on the ground
03:09And our arms in the breeze
03:15Under a sheltering sky
03:23Turn me above
03:25Turn me above
03:26And turn me around
03:29Let me grow dizzy
03:33And fall to the ground
03:37And when I look up
03:41At you looking down
03:47Say it was only a dream
03:56A big truck was parked
03:59In the drive one day
04:02They wrapped us in paper
04:06And moved us away
04:09Your room was no longer
04:13Next door to mine
04:16This kid sister thing
04:20Was old by that time
04:24But oh how our dreams
04:29Went bump in the night
04:32And the voices downstairs
04:36Getting into a fight
04:41And the next day a silence
04:45You could cut with a knife
04:48And feel like a blade
04:53At your throat
04:55At your throat
04:59Twirl me above
05:02And twirl me around
05:06Let me grow dizzy
05:10And fall to the ground
05:15And when I look up
05:19At you looking down
05:23Say it was only a dream
05:55The day you left home
05:58You got an early start
06:02I watched your car
06:06Back out in the dark
06:10I opened the door
06:15To your room down the hall
06:19And all I turned on the light
06:25And all that I saw
06:28And all that I saw
06:29Was a bed
06:31And a desk
06:34And a couple of tacks
06:38No sign of someone
06:42Who expects
06:44To be back
06:47And it must have been
06:49One hell of a suitcase
06:51In case you pass
06:53In case you pass
07:21And when I look up
07:25At you looking down
07:33Say it was only a dream
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