Aaron McMullan - In A Dream lyrics

In a dream I saw the summer bleeding azure cross the city And the city bleeding sapphire o'er my shoulders Like those memories All shimmering, all crystalline, and tied 'round broken branches Held above the heads o' phantom children Ma**ed on either side o me In a dream I saw the words all rise from well-thumbed cracklin' pages Saw the words boilin' on sun-kissed stones All shades of saddest poetry I tasted every syllable o' those mournful, dawn-light verses And I gathered them and swallowed them And felt them swell inside o' me She's all needle-eyed again and he's all slung cross line again And somewheres 'tween the two, a song… They'll dance around that melody, they'll kiss in G and f** in C They'll fall, the song still skips along… In a dream I saw a cancer spittin' rabid over youth, I saw A generation crucified 'neath Middle Eastern skies, I saw The dimming of the streetlights and the snarling of the rifles And God and gods all lashed I saw The guilt burn back their eyes, I saw A consciousness all colours of the morning 'gainst the windows And the rain all tippin' tappin' at the gla** My hands are pressed upon A whisper as a slipstream, as a burst of August radiance The blooming of those promises I lay my dreams to rest upon A circle all electric hiss, and tongues entwined and smoke-rings wisp And weave and paint the pulsin' sky A triangle, a trinity, a triptych points to you and me And something else still undefined As I wake I hear the slinkin' of a record someone's playin In the room beneath this room all strewn with Fragments of the night before I woke and I heard fusion, I heard b**hes Brew all oozin' From the speakers stacked beside her Three abreast upside the bathroom door The day is tricklin' glorious across those skyways 'head of us And somewhere to the left of us A song worth singin' waits for us A lyric speaks to none but us, and yes, on loan to all of us A tune played in the key of us On strings plucked someplace under us