songs: Summer Dreams

Written and recorded for Nine Sleepless Nights around age 15.

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The walls in this old place
Are so familiar
And with the windows
They will filter
All the thoughts that lost their minds
And all the thoughts that challenge times

With her black hair in her eyes
She's disconnected
She's deflected
Their main objective
She's out of line
She's doing fine
As she defines
Her own design

If you close your eyes
You can almost see her
You'll see her just the way she is
And if you listen right
You just might believe her
Believe me...

Summer days have gone away
But summer dreams are here to stay
And she's sending her heart to California
And all her family sits and waits
And all her friends anticipate
A time when they'll find
That she's come back to join the
World outside of California

She's barely hit 16
And she is dying
She's defying
The hand that's trying
To wake her up
To raise the stakes
To show her what steps she must take

And as the doctors dose her up
She's at the boardwalk
With the tik' toc'
Of heels on flip flops
She loves the rides
That flow like tides
That go so high
They touch the sky...

If you close your eyes
You can almost see her
You'll see her just the way she is
And if you listen right
You just might believe her
Believe me...

Summer days have gone away
But summer dreams are here to stay
And she's sending her heart to California
And all her family sits in wait
And all her friends anticipate
A time when they'll find
That she's come back to join the
World outside of California

She's where the days are warm
And the nights are long
And when the day is gone
Well, the night lives on

She tells me she needs to fly...

And her hair sits fine
In the coastal wind
And when the fog sits light
And her curls set in

She tells me she needs to fly...

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