Making Love on the rocks and the sand
Touching the bones that were tied to your hand
Cooking for you on a stone
And the flag of our clan it was tied to our home
But it’s all over now.
And it was probably just a dream anyhow.
Visiting you where you live
Beaming with pride at your wife and your kids
And the sky is a memory now
And we don’t talk about savage things anyhow
Cause they’re all over now.
They were only a dream.
Button your buttons with pride.
I’m going back to the trees where we’d hide.
Back to the woods of our kin
Unearth the fire and I’ll start it again
Was it only a dream?
Was it only a dream?
You’re a great Englishman now
Propping your words up with curtsies and bows.
By Apple Creek do I lie
Making the sign of our clan to the sky
Was it only a dream?
Was it only a dream?
Sliding the bone through my ear
In Apple Creek my reflection is clear
Tying my hair up again
Putting the ribbons and feathers back in
Was it only a dream?
Were you only a dream?
Daddy I want you to know
You’re going someplace that I’ll never go
Daddy I want you to call
Whatever you’ve done I will not feel ashamed of you at all.
It was only a dream.
Thatching our roof up again
Singing our songs to the ear of the wind
You be a man of the world
I’ll paint the sign of our clan on the door
Was it only a dream?
Was it only my dream?
I’ll send you love songs that fly on the wind
I’ll weave your hair through my ribbon again
I’ll walk inside of your footprints once more
I’ll tell the Earth she can carry you back to my door
If it is what she dreams