Chords for Only a Dream - Mary Chapin Carpenter

[N] The thing that separates Chapin, [A] she can decode loneliness like [C#] very few people can.
Only a Dream is a song about one of my sisters [G] and I.
We were really close [D] as kids, and that's [A#] specifically what the song is about.
It's about trying to hold real [B] hard to memories [A] and not being able to sometimes. _
I can recall the sound of the wind
_ as it [E] blew through the [D] trees and the trees [E] would bend. _
[A] _ And I can recall [F#m] the smell of the rain
[A] _ _ on a hot summer night _ coming through [Em] the screen.
_ _ I'd crawl [D] in your bed when the lightning _ flashed
_ [F#m] and I'd [D] still be there [F#m] when the [E] storm had _ _ passed.
[A] _ Dead to [E] the world till [F#m] the _ [A] morning _ cast
[D] its light [E] all _ around your [D]
room.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ We lived on [E] a street where the [D] tall [A] elm shade
[C#m] was [A] as green _ as the grass _ [E] and as cool as the blaze
[A]
that you held in your teeth [D] as we lay on our [A] _ backs
[D] staring up at [A] the blue _ _ [D] _ and the blue [E] _
stared back.
_ _ [Em] I [D] used to believe we were just [A] like [D] those trees.
_ [E] _ [F#m] We'd grow just as [D] tall [F#m] and as [E] proud as we _ pleased
[A] with our feet [E] on the ground [F#m] and our _ arms in [A] the breeze
_ [D] _ under [E] a _
_ [A] sheltering sky. _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [D] Twirl me about and twirl me around.
Let [F#m] _ _ me [A] grow dizzy _ and [B] fall to [E] the ground
[A]
and when I look up [D] at you _ [A] looking down
_ [D] say _ it was [G#m] _ only [A] a dream. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ A big [E] truck was parked in the [D] drive one [C#m] day.
They [D] wrapped us [A] in paper and _ [E] moved us away.
[A] _ Your [E] room was no [D] longer next [A] door to mine. _
This [E] kid sister thing [F#m] was old [E] by that time. _ _ _
But [D] oh how our dreams went bump [F#m] in the [D] night
_ [F#m] and the voices _ [A] _ downstairs [F#m] getting _ into [E] a _ fight
[A] and the next [G#m] day a silence you could [D] cut [A] with a knife
[D] and _ feel [E] like a blade at your [D] throat.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[D] Twirl me about and twirl me _ around.
[F#m] _ Let me grow dizzy _ and [E] fall to the _ _ [A] ground
and when I [C#m] look up [D] at you _ looking [A] _ down
[Bm] say _ _ [C#m] it [E] was _ only [C#] _
a _ [A] _ _ dream. _
[D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [A] _ _
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The [C#] day you left [E] _ [A] home you [D] caught an [A] early star.
_ [D] _
I [A] watched your car _ [D] back out [E] in the dark.
_ [A] _ _
I opened [E] the door [F#m] to your [D]
room [A] down the hall.
[D] I turned on the light [C#m] _ _ [D] _ _
and all [E] that I saw _ _ _
was a [D] bed and a desk and a couple of tacks.
_ [A] _
No sign of someone who [E] expects to be back _ _ _
[A] and it must have been one hell of [F#m] a _ suitcase you [A] _ packed. _ _ _
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[D] Twirl me about _ _ _ [F#m] and twirl [F] me _ [D] around. _ _
_ [F#] Let me grow [A] dizzy _ and fall _ [E] to the ground
_ _ [A] _ and when I look up [D] at you _ looking _ _ [C#m] down
_ _ [D] _ _ _
say [E] it was _ _ [G#] only _ a [G] _ [G#] _ _ [A] _ _
_ dream.
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