Only a Dream chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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I can recall the sound of the wind
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As it blew through the trees
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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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Verse 2

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

Verse 3
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We lived on a street
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where the tall elm shade
Em 
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Was as green as the grass
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and as cool as a blade
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That you held in your teeth
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as we lay on our backs
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Staring up at the blue
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and the blue stared back

Verse 4
Dm 
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I used to believe we were
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just like those trees
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C 
We'd grown just as tall and
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as proud as we pleased
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With our feet on the ground and
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our arms in the breeze
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Under a sheltering sky
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Verse 5
Dm 
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Twirl me about, and twirl me around
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Let me grow dizzy and fall
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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
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Verse 6
A big truck was parked
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in the drive one day
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They wrapped us in paper
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and moved us away
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Your room was no longer
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next door to mine
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And this kid sister thing
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was old by that time

Verse 7
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But oh how our dreams
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went bump in the night
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And the voices downstairs
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getting into a fight
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And the next day a silence you
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could cut with a knife
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And feel like a blade at your throat

Verse 8
Dm 
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Twirl me about and twirl me around
Em 
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Let me grow dizzy and fall
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to the ground
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When I look up at you looking down
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Em 
Say it as only a dream

Interlude 1

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The day you

Verse 9
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left home
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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
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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
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couple of tacks
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No sign of someone who ex
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pects to be back
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C 
It must have been one hell of a suitcase
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you packed

Interlude 2

Twirl

Verse 10
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me about, twirl me around
Em 
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D 
Let me grow dizzy and fall
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to the ground
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C 
G 
When I look up at you looking down
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D 
Em 
Say it was only a dream