To Go and Return - Jeffrey Lewis

Wish on a star, it’s gonna work in the future

In the time that it takes a wish to go and return

When you’re sleeping at night the wish is flying and flying

The star will wait 'til it’s time to listen and learn

And the wish it will land in the star’s giant hand

And a bridge will appear to the star’s giant ear

And the wish it will walk to the ear and then talk

And this all will take place deep in the forest of space

Every song a bird has sung in the morning

Is a song on the dark side that a bird dreams at night

And each turn of the earth makes half the upside-down beaks

Take a turn in the dream-songs from the ones upside-right

And each time that they match there’s a egg that will hatch

'til they open the moon, and the earth will hatch too

'til a chirp is expressed from each galaxy’s nest

And this all will take place deep in the forest of space

When the wishes come back they’ll be granted and given

But the time that it took will be a life and a half

So each life that we live is someone’s wish from a distance

Each wish that we make the future won’t need to ask

And the starlight that beams through each island that dreams

Is reflected so small in the eyes of us all

And each light bounces back to someplace out in the black

From our face to its face deep in the forest of space