Nellie McKay - Where or When lyrics

When you're awake the things you think
Come from the dreams you dream
Thought has wings and lots of things
Are seldom what they seem

Sometimes you think you've lived before
All that you lived today things you do
Come back to you as though they knew the way
Oh, the tricks your mind can play

It seems we stood and talked like this before
We looked at each other in the same way then
But, I can't remember where or when

The clothes you're wearing
Are the clothes you wore
The smile you're smiling
You were smiling then
But, I can't remember where or when

Some things that happen for the first time
Seem to be happening again

And so it seems that we have met before
And laughed before and loved before
But who knows where or when?