Dreamyard Angels

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DREAMYARD ANGELS
Words & Music : Tony Poole ©2021 Aurora Music

Standing on the stony beach of Lake Ontario
Red sun slipping the wheel of sky
Joni's cartoon coaster in its watery eye
Wond'ring how the show will go down tonight in Oswego
We've come so far after all this time
Found nothing more than we left behind
From the Underground to the London Roundhouse and Soho Square
The gleaming stars and the dreaming yard that opened there
On a boundless sky we were riding going nowhere
Singing:
Hey don't say goodbye, on
Dreamyard Angels' wings you'll fly
Hey don't you cry
It's nothing more than a fairground sky
Going round and round and round and round and round

On a '51 Trailways People Carrier called Midnight Flyer
Riding through the Carolinas alive
With Civil War and C.B. jive
There's a million tales on these seats and clarion signal wires
Of dreamers' eyes and dreams unrealised
A million miles from those Hollywood smiles
It's Ho-Jos and Diners and don't go behind this Columbia shroud
Holiday Inns and outs and things no-one talks about
And a fleeting series of flash encounters with a ghost-like crowd
Singing:
Hey don't say goodbye, on
Dreamyard Angels' wings you'll fly
Hey don't you cry
It's nothing more than a fairground sky
Going round and round and round and round and round

See us hit the stage in the spotlight cage of New York State
Flo & Eddie at The Bottom Line
Frame & Fradley wearily benign
As the Fender Bender and the Prima Dreamer rail against their fates
The August kids watch the sawdust spill
As Gene and Gib and Joel Scott Hill
Open the gates and throw off the weights on this fragile balloon
Starry high and Burritos flying by imagin'ry moons
Where angels' eyes hold us hypnotised with the magic of soon
In a circus cartoon
Singing:
Hey don't say goodbye, on
Dreamyard Angels' wings you'll fly
Hey don't you cry
It was only a painted sky
Going round and round and round and round and round

In a pavement cafe called Le Sorbet in Washington DC
'The Night Before', The Cellar Door
Nancy forgive me if forevermore
Was just Zero Street and fake heroes meeting electricity
Down in Atlanta when The Medicine Show
Got busted and I saw that Edison glow
They sang 'Going Down' as I was going down with oblivious grace
Slow motion accidental falling through time and space
Like a preview of this exploding dance I've come to embrace
I feel her hands on my face
Singing:
Hey don't say goodbye, on
Dreamyard Angels' wings you'll fly
Hey don't you cry
It was just my imagin'ry sky
Going round and round and round and round and round

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from Bells of Lightning, released October 31, 2021

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