Only A Dream

(Mary Chapin Carpenter) 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