Totally amazing changes...always evolving

Totally amazing mind
So understanding and so kind
You're everything to me

All my life
Is changing every day
In every possible way

And oh my dreams
It's never quite as it seems
Cause you're a dream to me
Dream to me*

--

* Dreams by The Cranberries

Could this be it?! :)

Life goes on
It gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear, a waterfall
In the night, the stormy night
She closed her eyes
In the night, the stormy night
Away she'd fly.

And dreamed of para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh
...
So lying underneath those stormy skies.
She said oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.
I know the sun must set to rise.

This could be para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
This could be para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh.*

--

* Paradise by Coldplay

And I don't want to take 'em off

I'm looking at the world through these
Candy colored glasses that I'm wearing
Staring, noticing that everything is
Just the way I'd like for it to be
So please knock before you walk into my dream*

--
* Candy Colored Glasses by Big Kenny

Shhh! I'm trying to dream

Oh lonely girl don't you loose your dreams
in someone else's cries
Lonely girl don't you see your life
in someone else's eyes

Lonely world don't you find your faith
in someone else's lies
Lonely world don't you live your life
through someone else's eyes

Oh dream on
Dream on dreamers
Keep on, dream on*

--
* Lonely World by Robin Thicke

Shall we haggle?

Price to Pay
by Blues Traveler

Standing here with a tale to tell
I might as well tell to you
Nothing near Wagnerian
As Terminator Two
It's an old one about a little dirt farm girl
Who wanted to get out for good
She would do anything to keep that dream
She would do anything she could

Who was she
To feel so free
With her heart on her sleeve
She just couldn't believe...
There was a price to pay

Her very first chance to escape that year
Came when the circus had come to town
She wound up in bed and quite madly in love
With some rubber nose juggling clown
He promised he'd return for her come next spring
And he swore that he wouldn't forget
So needless to say come the following May
More than her appetite was getting wet
She proceeded unheeded and quite undefeated
To the trailer behind the tents
And her heart began to scar at his trailer door
She was gonna go wherever he went

Who was she
To feel so free
With her heart on her sleeve
She just couldn't believe...
There was a price to pay

He arrived at last about half past
With a girl under every arm
But all of this in itself could have been innocent as hell
But what began to cause her alarm
Was when he locked the door behind him like she always been
She was standing alone in the dirt
And her eyes were so dry that she began to cry
And something began to hurt
She wanted to tear the hair out of her head
Yeah and she wanted to wish that she was dead
But a voice in her just would not let her drop
And her heart began to break but it didn't stop

Run all your races
And don't you fear
You and I
Are getting out of here
And we'll survive
That I guarantee
Cause you don't need much
When all you have is me

She listened to the little voice in her
And then she hit the road
Free at last and with just a tiny scar
And finally on her own
No one knows what became of her
All we know is she got away
And though there really ain't no guarantees down here
I like to think she did okay

Who was she
To feel so free
With her heart on her sleeve
She just couldn't believe...
There was a price to pay

That there's a price to pay
That there's a price to pay
That there's a price to pay
That there's a price to pay

A call to dream

Rosie's Lullaby
by Norah Jones

She walked by the ocean,
And waited for a star,
To carry her away.

Feelin' so small,
At the bottom of the world,
Lookin' up to God.

She tries to take deep breaths,
To smell the salty sea,
As it moves over her feet.

The water pulls so strong,
And no-one is around,
And the moon is looking down.

Sayin',
Rosie - come with me,
Close your eyes - and dream.

The big ships are rollin',
And lightin' up the night,
And she calls out, but they just pass her by.

The waves are crashin',
But not making a sound,
Just mouthing along.

Sayin',
Rosie - come with me,
Close your eyes and dream,
Close your eyes and dream,
Close your eyes and dream.

A gift of vivid dreams

I'll see you in my dreams
Hold you in my dreams
Someone took you out of my arms
Still I feel the thrill of your charms

Lips that once were mine
Tender eyes that shine
They will light
My way tonight
I'll see you in my dreams.*

--
* I'll See You In My Dreams by Jimmy Durante

Dream sequence #4

She stares up at the stars when
The stars fell from her hair then
I bent down to collect them
And then she was gone

Oh, I sleep just to dream her
I beg the night just to see her
That my only love should be her
Just to lie in her arms
...
I know I'll miss her later
Wish I could bend my love to hate her
Wish I could be her creator
To be the light in her eyes*

--
* Sleep To Dream Her by Dave Matthews Band

Crazy Dreams

When will I wake up?
Escape from this crazy dream
Maybe tomorrow
I'll find a better dream for me

The shiver in my soul
Whoa I think I'm gonna go
But in the depth of my mind
There's a place that only I have seen
Will it ever be reality*

--
* Crazy Dream by Los Lonely Boys

The lover in my dreams

You're only just a dreamboat
Sailing in my head
You swim my secret oceans
Of coral blue and red
Your smell is incense burning
Your touch is silken yet
It reaches through my skin
And moving from within
It clutches at my breast

But it's only when I sleep
See you in my dreams
You got me spinning round and round
Turning upside-down
But I only hear you breathe

Somewhere in my sleep
Got me spinning round and round
Turning upside-down
But its only when I sleep*

--
* Only When I Sleep by The Corrs

Ready for a short visit to my dreamworld

Words would fly right from out of my mind
Out of my mind into your heart and into your life
And everything would sound just right
And no one would stop me from drinking my wine

That's my dreamworld, that's my dreamworld
It's more than a dream
My dreamworld, that's my dreamworld
And I wanna live in my dream, dream

For the real world just don't feel right
I wouldn't spend my days searching for
Searching for lost time
Yeah hey, dream*

--
* Dreamworld by Robin Thicke

Change of plans. Need a new direction

I'm looking for an interruption,
Do you believe?
You looking to dig my dreams
Be prepared for anything
...

I'm looking for an interruption,
Can you believe?
Some medicine for my headache
Hooray, hooray, hip hip hooray
I'm pitching for a new direction
Pinch me when I wake
Don't tell me my dreams are fake*

--
* I Don't Sleep, I Dream by R.E.M.

Resistance is futile

They took pictures of our dreams

Ran to hide behind the stairs

And said maybe when it's right for you, they'll fall

But if they don't come down

Resist the need to pull them in

And throw them away

Better to save the mystery

Than surrender to the secret *

--
* Another Day by Dream Theater

Stipe has some good questions

R.E.M. was the first band I got to see in concert in the U.S. My bf at the time bought us tickets. He had all the CD's and Monster was my favorite, along with Automatic for the People and Out of Time, so he let me keep those in the divorce. :) It was an amicable break up...obviously ;)

I'm looking for an interruption,
Can you believe?
Some medicine for my headache
Hooray, hooray, hip hip hooray
I'm pitching for a new direction
Pinch me when I wake
Don't tell me my dreams are fake
You leave me to lay, you touch me deep,
I don't sleep, I dream
I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need
Leave me to lay, but touch me deep,
I don't sleep, I dream
I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need

--

Gifts of music

Given my love of music, I often receive what I refer to as "gifts of music." These aren't always physical gifts such as a CD or a sound file, although sometimes they are! More often, these are songs that someone dear to me heard and it made them think of me either because of the meaning of the lyrics or because it sounded like something they thought I'd enjoy. I consider these songs very special and thus, during this entire month in which we celebrate love, I will share with all of you some of the sweetest expressions of love that have been bestowed upon me by the many who inhabit my heart.

I will start with a song that has been shared TWICE by two very special people. One of which is my 11-year-old son. He came to me and said, "Mami, I know a song you will definitely love." I smiled a very big smile when he played it because I had already loved it months before when it was first played for me. I didn't tell him that though. ;)

Fireflies
by Owl City
Songwriter: Young, Adam

You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep

'Cause they'd fill the open air
And leave teardrops everywhere
You'd think me rude
But I would just stand and stare

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems

'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance

A foxtrot above my head
A sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
When I fall asleep

Leave my door open just a crack
(Please take me away from here)
'Cause I feel like such an insomniac
(Please take me away from here)
Why do I tire of counting sheep
(Please take me away from here)
When I'm far too tired to fall asleep

To ten million fireflies
I'm weird 'cause I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said farewell

But I'll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
'Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
When I fall asleep

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
When I fall asleep

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
Because my dreams are bursting at the seams

~*~