Souvenir from a Dream - Tom Verlaine

You were living five lives in one

Taking everyone’s coat

Why can’t you show them

What you’ve got in your cloak?

Cold hand on my shoulder

A star begins to beam

That’s when you show me

Your souvenir from a dream

Empty handed, I awake

Just when I thought I had

So much at stake

Seems you’ve got something to say

Why don’t you say it?

(No mister, this is Plattsburgh…

Gotta go back to the junction

About five miles…

I think you’ve come the wrong way…

You were supposed to make a right turn)

Thirty lights in a row

Every one of them green

How it reminds me

Of your souvenir from a dream

Empty handed, I awake

Just when I thought I had

So much at stake

Seems you’ve got something to say

Why don’t you say it?

You were living five lives in one

You were living five lives in one

(Mister, you went the wrong way…

I think you better go back…

Should have made a right turn…

I don’t think this is where you want to go…

No, you better just go back…

I think you made a wrong turn somewhere.)