Witness - Twenty Years From Tomorrow

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I once dreamt of brown stone building with a front porch 

Mandevilla vine wound around the rungs 

Summer dress on a bedroom floor 

You pressed close enough to me to feel the breath in my lungs 

Until we walk down Lyndale 

Almost lockstep 

Not too slow 

But, just enough for progress 

Time was wasted debating all of them odds and ends 

Ain't no floating this river, baby, we gotta swim 

You were born in July 

I was born December 19, 1980-Orwell 

The years came and they went 

But the chains of events 

Sparked a change in the wind 

And now we're sharing a doorbell? 

We returned to the haven that we created 

And later we laid in the shade with lemonade in the backyard 

The sun faded and when i looked at the paper 

It's twenty years in the future 

I knew we would make it that far 

i once dreamt of a blonde haired girl beneath the bus stop 

When we were both still young and eyes bright 

Somebody told me that she lived around the corner 

I was knocking on her door like, "Hey do you wanna ride bikes?" 

Those summers always seemed to smother under winter 

My mother would make me bundle up with gloves to cover up my fingers 

But she had none, when we were playing make believe 

And when I tried to hold her hand 

That's when she ran away from me 

Damn 

Well that was my first bee sting 

Next few years tried to find her each spring 

But these things rarely ever come to closure 

Never got her new address before she left for Minnesota 

I don't suppose you know her and it's just coincidence 

But if it's what I think it is then this is just the start 

The only difference is I never really knew her 

Til twenty years in the future 

But knew we would make it this far 

I once dreamt and the world wondered when I planned to wake