A Dream Last Night

Music and Lyrics: M.L. Hammond

One night I dreamed I was dreaming…which turned into this joyful, Möbius strip of a song.

I had a dream last night
and oh it felt so true
I dreamed of you and you were dreaming of me
dreaming of you
you were dreaming of me dreaming of you

It was a dazzling day
the air was clear as glass
we sunned ourselves like royal beasts
in the tender grass
then we drowsed and dozed in the grass

And the birds sang a feathery opera
and the butterflies fluttered by
and I watched you dreaming away
under a luminous sky

Then in the dream within the dream
you and I both awoke
and at the very same moment
both of us spoke, and we said—

“I had a dream last night,
and oh it felt so true
I dreamed of you and you were
dreaming of me dreaming of you
you were dreaming of me dreaming of you”

It was a dazzling night
the air was still as glass
we yawned and stretched like royal beasts
in the tender grass
then we slumbered on in the grass

And an owl sang a bluesy lullaby
and the fireflies glimmered away
till the night turned and swallowed its tail
and dreamed us into the day

Then in the dream within the dream
you and I both awoke
and at the very same moment
both of us spoke, and we said—

“I had a dream last night…”