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Dreaming Not Sleeping

from Jazzraptor's Secret by Jack Foster III

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Dreaming Not Sleeping
lyrics by Foster and Myers; music by Foster, Gardner, and Berry

Dreaming Not Sleeping
there’s a love that’s worth keeping
paradise
thrown out with the ice
after the party’s done
Half asleep and half awake
you’re in the breath I take
Let the world weep through the blind
‘cause the world that’s yours and mine
Is all that matters now

suspended in between
what’s real and what is dream
weaving in and weaving out
I kiss you when we meet
. . . amid broken lullabies
you’re all I’m about now

you’re the picture of restraint
in face white theatre paint
you guessed right from the start
I’d rather not feel at all
yet I brave the sandman’s sand
to catch your trapeze hand
and hold it to my heart
to save you from your fall

Dreaming Not Sleeping
of a love that’s worth keeping
Am I foolish, am I wise
to think if one of us tries
that all your wishing wells
wouldn’t be just fairy tales
then the fates they would allow
we could be happy somehow

the heart of the circus
perfectly imperfect
won’t waste any motion
trying to make you understand
‘cause Time waits for poppa
and poppa waits for momma
and if I could rise to your embrace
you know that I
would do the samba
and sway with you lover
in the warm summer clover
no I’ll never get over . . .

Dreaming Not Sleeping
of a love that’s worth keeping
Am I foolish, am I wise
to think if one of us tries
that all your wishing wells
wouldn’t be just fairy tales
then the fates they would allow
we could be happy right now

we’re stuck here in between
the nightmare and the dream
weaving out and weaving in
the comfort your heart seeks

Dreaming Not Sleeping
of a love that’s worth keeping
Am I foolish, am I wise
to think if one of us tries
that all your wishing wells
wouldn’t be just fairy tales
then the fates they would allow
we could be happy right now

Dreaming Not Sleeping
of a love that’s worth keeping
that our hidden paradise
ain’t thrown out with the ice
paradise
thrown out with the ice

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from Jazzraptor's Secret, released January 1, 2009
Foster, Gardner, and Berry

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