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My dream girl don't exist
At the age of five she slit her wrist
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
So her parents buried her in the ground
And this day I can still hear the sound
Of a life in outer space
My dream girl don't exist
Just you and I and this TV
And this illness seems to feel so strange
Like a henchman that's about to hang
The moon up like a ball and chain
And set the sands ablaze
And the weight is waiting, oh
Feel the world so real and strong
My dream girl don't exist
Took her photograph from a history book
I believe she had a voice and name
Three children on the coast of Maine
Her life was in a hurricane
Of love and real embrace
My dream girl don't exist
At the age of five she slit her wrist
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
So one day she took a stroll to town
And walked in front of a Greyhound bound
For New York central state
And the weight is waiting, oh
And the weight is waiting, oh
Feel the world so real and strong
She goes and now she knows she'll never be afraid
At the age of five she slit her wrist
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
So her parents buried her in the ground
And this day I can still hear the sound
Of a life in outer space
My dream girl don't exist
Just you and I and this TV
And this illness seems to feel so strange
Like a henchman that's about to hang
The moon up like a ball and chain
And set the sands ablaze
And the weight is waiting, oh
Feel the world so real and strong
My dream girl don't exist
Took her photograph from a history book
I believe she had a voice and name
Three children on the coast of Maine
Her life was in a hurricane
Of love and real embrace
My dream girl don't exist
At the age of five she slit her wrist
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
So one day she took a stroll to town
And walked in front of a Greyhound bound
For New York central state
And the weight is waiting, oh
And the weight is waiting, oh
Feel the world so real and strong
She goes and now she knows she'll never be afraid
Lyrics submitted by typo, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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second, listen to what jeff says before hand closer. He saying that he wrote songs so long that he broke them up into other songs. so it's probable that he made this song with/off of "ghost" but doesn't mean there's any connection between the two (expect for that last line)
lastly, this song i personally think is about not ever finding the person that is meant for you, in Jeff case, i think he's talking about Anne Frank, like she was suppose to be the person he was to fall in love with (the whole album "in the aeroplane over the sea" is about anne frank so he has some obsession with her lol) "My dream girl don't exist, Just a photograph in a history book"
its so difficult to actually figure out what he's talking about, but in this case, im going to agree with the others and say its a companion to "ghost".
I'd also like to point out that I doubt it is a companion song to ghost. Although the ending is similar, I don't think he was refering to ghost.
Its interesting tho, the first performance of ghost (in late 1997) is very similar to the version that made it onto aeroplane, suggestion it had actually been around for a while.
"my dream girl don't exist
she's working in a mcdonald's in madison, wisconsin
she coulda been cool, but she let the system get to her
she forgot about art and just made hamburgers,"
which to me gives that version of the song a definite sarcastic twist while also painting it in a darker shade than i think this version listed above even gives.
i think the shorter version is somehow more powerful, because it's basically saying that his dreamgirl doesn't exist anymore because she threw her life away in the sense she forgot about everything she cared about for something stupid, and now she's just flipping burgers or whatever, essentially throwing away the girl he had grown to love in the first place. she's not really dead in that version, just dead to him.
...at least, that's how i interpret it, plus at the end where he's yowling like a cat or whatever, well, it's hard not to laugh at that version. it's my favorite out of the two. i like dark humor apparently. plus that version inspires me not to give up on my own interests. pits of despair can suck it. =P
The second verse is:
My dreamgirl don't exist
She's workin at a macdonalds in Madison, Wisconsin
She coulda' been cool, but she let the system get to her
Forgot about oranges- made hamburgers
My dreamgirl don't exist
They're all sittin around watchin' TV
They're out stuffin... shit-
Song ends and Jeff makes noise for about a minute.