(Mary Chapin Carpenter)      The stars are out tonight, the breeze is warm and light   As I'm walking right back to you   Along the dreaming road, the only way to go   When I'm travelling by our code that north is true   Once upon a time these same bright stars did shine   Down the center line leading here   Nearly thirty years ago, now the map is stained and old   But on the dreaming road the coast is clear   I loved you more than life and I guess that's why I died   When you would not love me back I couldn't survive   And so the girl I was turned into someone else   Keeping to myself and from the light   I wasn't odd or strange, just quietly rearranged   Sometimes the biggest change stays out of sight      So without plot or clue I ran away from you   I was twenty-two and drunk in Amsterdam   Got robbed in Paris, France, got home on one last chance   And without a backward glance I began again   And the days just kept on rolling and I just kept on going   Without a thought of ever slowing down   I made this long road mine but it was not the dreaming kind   Too many lost souls trying to get found   But beneath this ancient sky, one night we did collide   And the hole I thought was scaled opened wide   I tried so hard again not to fall back in   But you had me then by the throat   And a strange futility came washing over me   Almost peacefully I felt the rope      A million miles goes by in the blink of an eye   And so I cannot try to slow time down   And years are made of sand slipping through my hands   Even faster than the speed of sound   The stars are out tonight, the breeze is soft and light   As I'm walking right back to you   With nothing left to hide, the tears have all been cried   And the girl who died is walking too   Down the dreaming road, where the light is always gold   The air is never cold and always fine   And north is always true and you are always you   And I'm that girl you knew once upon a time