I can recall the sound of the wind   As it blew throught the trees and the trees would bend   I can recall the smell of the rain    On a hot summer night    Coming through the screen      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      We lived on a street where the tall elm shade    Was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade    That you held in your teeth as we lay on our backs    Staring up at the blue and the blue stared back      I used to believe we were just like those trees    We'd grown just as tall and as proud as we pleased    With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze    Under a sheltering sky      Twirl me about, and twirl me around    Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground    And when I look up at you looking down,    Say it was only a dream      A big truck was parked in the drive one day    They wrapped us in paper and moved us away    Your room was no longer next door to mine    And this kid sister thing was old by that time      But oh how our dreams went bump in the night    And the voices downstairs getting into a fight    And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife    And feel like a blade at your throat      Twirl me about and twirl me around    Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground    When I look up at you looking down    Say it as only a dream      The day you left home you got an early start    I watched your car back out in the dark    I opened the door to your room down the hall    I turned on the light    And all that I saw    Was a bed and a desk and couple of tacks    No sign of someone who expects to be back    It must have been one hell of a suitcase you packed      Twirl me about, twirl me around    Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground    When I look up at you looking down    Say it was only a dream