Kim Carnes

Songwriter: Kim Carnes Chuck Prophet Angelo Petraglia

Producer: Kim Carnes Chuck Prophet Angelo Petraglia

Laid on the floor beneath the ceiling fan
Fumbled in the dark until I found your hand
Turn out the lights, I wanna go there again

If I could only live my lucid dreams
I wouldn't break down
I would not wake up screaming
Out of focus, just beyond my reach
I only I, I could live my lucid dreams

Streetlights were yellow and the world spun down
Put on your old jacket and I went to town
I found our old place and I laid down on the lawn

If I could only live my lucid dreams
I wouldn't break down
I would not wake up screaming
Out of focus, just beyond my reach
I only I, I could live my lucid dreams

My lucid dreams in shadows, dreams of light
Neon colors burning bright
Dreams of sweet sangria wine
And you undressed me one more time

I should be riding bareback across the silver sands
Playing lead guitar in Bob Dylan's band
Instead of wrestling the ghosts running loose in my head

If I could only live my lucid dreams
I wouldn't break down
I would not wake up screaming
Out of focus, just beyond my reach
I only I, I could live my lucid dreams

Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, she began her career as a songwriter in the 1960s, writing for other artists while performing in local clubs and working as a session background singer with the famed Waters sisters (featured in the documentary 20 Feet from Stardom). After she signed her first publishing deal with Jimmy Bowen, she released her debut album Rest on Me in 1972. Carnes' self-titled second album primarily contained self-penned songs, including her first charting single “You’re a Part of Me”, which reached No. 35 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1975. In the following year, Carnes released Sailin', which featured “Love Comes from Unexpected Places”. The song won the American Song Festival and the award for Best Composition at the Tokyo Song Festival in 1976.

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