An Airplane Carried Me to Bed

I'll save you An echo from the hall And I'll paint you A dreamscape on your bedroom wall Pretend you're not alone Like you are center-stage on Broadway 'Cause when you're on your own A little opera goes a long way I'll meet you Where the page proclai

The darkness, the coal mines knew it best When the daylight headed west and disappeared Progression, on the morning goes But regardless no one knows the day has cleared Oh we are blind I'll be the flowers of the field that slowly bloom While you are

Sailboats wish that they were stars Floating softly in the sky Among our dreams that bid goodbye Moving through transparent space Drifting through the stratosphere And onward till they disappear These continents from overhead Look like tiny paper sha

This old mountain side where we used to reside Is slowly recalling the things we discovered inside Oh, the crystal caves We shed both our jackets and I hammered brackets From old metal chairs to the walls for a crude set of stairs To lead us down And

Cell phones and travel stations Ringtones and new relations Say hello to all your friends for me Several calls are made to Thailand Wound up in Prince Edward Island And my head feels like it's ready to blow I served and scratched a rainbow So curved,

Farewell nightmares, I am free Welcome streams of sweet dreams that settle over me What lies out there, no one knows The tide could bring in anything so steady as she goes Steady as she goes I can feel her as I lie awake But she's back home still wai

Mid air, I woke up beneath the flight deck On a wallpaper airplane As you stared, I strap my helmet on And left your driveway behind Flutter all through the night And we can pull the clouds around This paper hanger skyline Summer smile again And you

Take me somewhere nice To some tired island in your heart called "paradise" Though we wander home We both feel alone like escapees with no where to go I can think of a thousand ways To get good and lost beyond these hopeless days Where we'll ren

There's a hand written note pressed in the door of her screened-in porch And I am sailing away, recalling that day, miles from shore She was still wearing white and robin's egg blue, her grandmother's dress When I left early this year, how I wound up

Oh, satellite above (Where are you?) So many things I have to tell you off (Please come back soon) You went through an open door or a hole in the floor You vanished and I can't see you anymore Dreams never die when we sleep beneath the open sky In th

I was on the road Despite the holiday When wintergreen daydreams softly collided And took all my headaches away When did I arrive? I don't recall ever leaving Alaska Why do I hate the dark when I'm alone? I was on my way To a brighter day I'm still c

I was twenty-two Alone with nothing to do, and I couldn't sleep 'Cause all those cold days returned With their old ways of causing new apathy I live alone I live alone She was twenty-one Wishing she lived by the sun, the sand and the sea So I suggest