You'll hear me calling in your sweet dream,
Can't hear your daddy's warning cry.
You're going back to be all the things you want to be
While in sweet dreams you softly sigh.

You hear my voice is calling to be mine again,
Live the rest of your life in a day.
Get out and get what you can
While your mummy's at home a-sleeping.
No time to understand
'Cause they've lost what they thought they were keeping.

No one can hear us in your sweet dream,
Don't hear you leave to start the car.
All wrapped up tightly in the coat you borrowed from me,
Your place of resting is not far.
You hear my voice is calling to be mine again,

Live the rest of your life in a day.
Get out and get what you can
While your mummy's at home a-sleeping.
No time to understand
'Cause they've lost what they thought they were keeping.


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Sweet Dream Lyrics as written by Ian Anderson

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    This could be about a girl (I'm guessing) who sneaks out of the house to have fun with the wrong crowd and dies in the process (she is lured out and takes the parents car). After all her daddy warned her not to hang out with them!--or perhaps it is about an ex-lover who gets her to come out of the house and then kills her. Then he later buries the corpse in an old coat as a shroud as suggested by another poster. Guess only Ian Anderson knows.

    ScribbledInk1975on August 14, 2017   Link

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