[Verse]
G D C G
I can recall the sound of the wind
C G C D
As it blew through the trees and the trees would bend
G D C G
I can recall the smell of the rain
C G
On a hot summer night
C D
Coming through the screen
Am F#7 D7 Em7
I'd crawl in your bed when the lightning flashed
C Bm7 C D
And I'd still be there when the storm had passed
G D C G
Dead to the world, to the morning cast
C D G
Its light all around your room
G D C G
We lived on a street where the tall elm shade
C G C D
Was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade
G D C G
That you held in your teeth as we lay on our backs
C G C D
Staring up at the blue and the blue stared back
Am F#7 D7 Em7
I used to believe we were just like those trees
C Bm7 C D
We'd grown just as tall and as proud as we pleased
G D C G
With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze
C D G
Under a sheltering sky
[Chorus]
Am F#7 D7 Em7
Twirl me about, and twirl me around
C Bm7 C D
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
G D C G
And when I look up at you looking down,
C D G
Say it was only a dream
[Verse]
G D C G
A big truck was parked in the drive one day
C G C D
They wrapped us in paper and moved us away
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G D C G
Your room was no longer next door to mine
C G C D
And this kid sister thing was old by that time
Am F#7 D7 Em7
But oh how our dreams went bump in the night
C Bm7 C D
And the voices downstairs getting into a fight
G D C G
And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife
C D G
And feel like a blade at your throat
[Chorus]
Am F#7 D7 Em7
Twirl me about, and twirl me around
C Bm7 C D
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
G D C G
And when I look up at you looking down,
C D G
Say it was only a dream
[Verse]
G D C G
The day you left home you got an early start
C G C D
I watched your car back out in the dark
G D C G
I opened the door to your room down the hall
C G
I turned on the light
C D
And all that I saw
Am F#7 D7 Em7
Was a bed and a desk and couple of tacks
C Bm7 C D
No sign of someone who expects to be back
G D C G
It must have been one hell of a suitcase you packed
[Chorus]
Am F#7 D7 Em7
Twirl me about, and twirl me around
C Bm7 C D
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
G D C G
And when I look up at you looking down,
C D G
Say it was only a dream
