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Dreams Are Another Country

by miscellaneous owl

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Tom, I had a dream about you last night
In your parents' house, in a suspended light
We climbed out onto the fire escape
My subconscious self and your imagined face
You dreamed one time that we played a gig together
We hadn't practiced, it was a disaster
My friend asked if we had ever met, I said,
Not yet, maybe if we're ever on the same continent
You said, "we've met in dreams"--
but dreams are another country

And I must have sung those words a thousand times
Until they lost all meaning
About how I met my uncle who died
In Beijing, while I was dreaming
In some other world, there's a ship that's still sailing
Where my uncle measures out the floors of some ordinary building
The lights reflecting in the lake and his glasses as he's smiling
I walk towards him, towards the lake, and then I wake up and I'm crying
I still see him in dreams
but dreams are another country

And sometimes when I have dreams about when I was a child
I am lost in a store, I am paralyzed and frightened
Between the racks of clothes, watching my father walk away
I try to call him back but there's nothing I can say
In some other dreams, he waits for me and takes my hand
An ordinary girl walking with her ordinary dad
We were happy in those dreams
but dreams are another country

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released February 19, 2018

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