Dream Out Loud

if you dream, dream out loud
you will be the only sound
I hear tonight beside the phone
spinning satellites on loan

I will hold my head up high
you can start waving goodbye
it is beautiful like a stolen scene
for a 1940's Pop Star Queen

you're the only girl of wingless flight
a single star in a covered night
I can wipe the tear out from your eyes
we can start again, if only I

can find the path out in the dark
where a shadow hides a tiny spark
the love is true, as true as hate
as long as life, as strong as fate

I could be your long lost friend
if you would only tell me when
if you did, I cheated too
maybe lied, to tell the truth

I want to die, I want to live
you can take what you wish to give
'cause the timing's wrong, though the stage is right
our lines get cut in the blinding lights

you're a Motown star in a forgotten town
got a raven's wing for a golden crown
the songs that play on the radio
have a line that you didn't know

you're a tweed coat on a cigarette
with a hand that shakes and a light that's bent
baby I've been here before
I've seen these walls and walked this floor

we started pure, we started broke
lived on love, fire and smoke
in a southern sky with the windows down
on an endless road we nailed the note

it's the last verse, final curse
the only words you don't rehearse
and I will sing for you if you sing for me
yeah - I will sing for you if you sing for me ...