Joan Baez - Speaking of Dreams lyrics
[Joan Baez - Speaking of Dreams lyrics]
Speaking of dreams
Here we are in the glistening
Streets of Gay Paree playing the Gipsy Kings
After the rain and taking tea at
The Ritz in boots and jeans
With a teenage girl who said that
It would be her grandest dream
And speaking of dreams, I really must say
I couldn't have dreamed you up
Nor the way you burst into my life
Rattled my cage
And woke my sleeping demons up
You were not yet born
When my career began in '59
We're a sign of the times
Who cares if you are a breath of
Spring and I am vintage wine
We come from two different worlds
Like every other couple on the Rue de Rivoli
You spent your youth in the
Rainforests of distant Camaroon
Your father was a Navy captain
I am the Queen of Hearts
And the daughter of the moon
Speaking of dreams you took me to see the
Paintings of Paul Gaughin speaking of dreams
We stood in the midst of waterfalls
Flaming trees
Golden dogs and shining Tahitian ladies
But it was you, not Paul Gaughin
Who stopped my heart and then
Started my life over again
And if you feel as I do
That we've erased the lines between reality
And all our painted dreams
Then take me down to where the Gipsies sing
The songs their mothers knew
Tie bright ribbons in my hair
Lean on the wind and watch me
While I dance for you
And carry me off to the
Rainforests of distant Camaroon
Tell me that you've always know that
I am the Queen of Hearts
And the daughter of the moon
Here we are in the glistening
Streets of Gay Paree playing the Gipsy Kings
After the rain and taking tea at
The Ritz in boots and jeans
With a teenage girl who said that
It would be her grandest dream
And speaking of dreams, I really must say
I couldn't have dreamed you up
Nor the way you burst into my life
Rattled my cage
And woke my sleeping demons up
You were not yet born
When my career began in '59
We're a sign of the times
Who cares if you are a breath of
Spring and I am vintage wine
We come from two different worlds
Like every other couple on the Rue de Rivoli
You spent your youth in the
Rainforests of distant Camaroon
Your father was a Navy captain
I am the Queen of Hearts
And the daughter of the moon
Speaking of dreams you took me to see the
Paintings of Paul Gaughin speaking of dreams
We stood in the midst of waterfalls
Flaming trees
Golden dogs and shining Tahitian ladies
But it was you, not Paul Gaughin
Who stopped my heart and then
Started my life over again
And if you feel as I do
That we've erased the lines between reality
And all our painted dreams
Then take me down to where the Gipsies sing
The songs their mothers knew
Tie bright ribbons in my hair
Lean on the wind and watch me
While I dance for you
And carry me off to the
Rainforests of distant Camaroon
Tell me that you've always know that
I am the Queen of Hearts
And the daughter of the moon