Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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A Dream Record, June 8th, 1955.
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The title is literal, A Dream Record.
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Shhh.
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I
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don't want to corrupt you.
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A drunken night in my house,
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I lay asleep, darkness,
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these are all separated by colons.
A drunken night in my house,
San Francisco,
I revisited Mexico City
and saw Joan Burrows leaning
forward in a garden chair,
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She studied me with clear eyes
and ironic smile,
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her face restored to a fine beauty,
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before the bullet in her brow.
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We talked of a life since then.
now?
Bill on earth, North Africa.
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Where's Julie staying then,
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Oh, in Karawack?
I hope he makes it, she laughed.
No, last time I saw him on Times Square.
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You, new kicks in the West.
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and questioned her.
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knowledge have the dead?
acquaintances?
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What do you remember of us?
The next instant,
under the gnarled branch
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of an unvisited garden in Mexico.
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