Michael Hedges - A Midwinter Night's Dream lyrics

Once upon a timeless night once behind my dreams you scratched my makeup off so I could scream The playhouse will pack tonight metropolitan appeal and all the actors fake forgetting props are real And the sirens harmonize tonight in a million dollar show they're racing to that blazing fire glow Policemen man their spotlight cars and race around the stage in my mobile dressing room the drivers change The set is falling through the night twenty inches deep and all the shifting snow will drift my soul to sleep Beneath the cold cold cream she hides refusing to yield her concrete arteries of life concealed And the sirens harmonize tonight in a million dollar show they're racing to that blazing fire glow Policemen man their spotlight cars and race around the stage in my mobile dressing room the drivers change I'm talking to my leading lady she's asking me how long will these horizontal friends she made belong So if you throw your cast away we can travel on if the beltway loosens up before the dawn And the sirens harmonize tonight in a million dollar show they're racing to that blazing fire glow Policemen man their spotlight cars and race around the stage in my mobile dressing room the drivers change… my sad-eyed drivers change