Adventures of the Deaf Dreamer

Once I had a dream that I was standing in Osaka There was a geisha and a refugee And deep down in her pocket was a tarnished silver locket And a picture frame that had always been empty She takes that refugee to town and keeps her eyes down on the ground As if she's waiting for the earth to open up And pull the geisha and that man into the cauldrons of Japan Beneath the streets that only serve to keep the gravity at bay She talks, I sleepwalk And I did not hear a thing Once I had this dream there were two starcrossed teenage lovers Trying to keep their secret safe from everyone Because if their parents ever learned this, they would slash and they would burn this And everything they know would be undone So they hid beneath the bleachers, out of view from all the teachers As the marching band played Hail to the Team It was the last game of the season, they were shaking, they were freezing There was nothing but their bodies in between She talks, I sleepwalk And I did not hear a thing Once I had this dream that I could see inside your mind And all the mysteries unraveled like a thread Once I had this dream that I could see inside my own mind Past denial and the walls inside my head And it all was making sense as I let go of my defenses And I saw the world for what it really was And I opened up my eyes to see the end of the disguise But I went blind before I even saw a thing She talks, I sleepwalk And I did not hear a thing She talks, I sleepwalk And I did not hear a thing