Hands up, money or your life
You stood and had to count to one hundred
Oh, but you peeked between your fingers
I lay waiting in the reeds for an hour
In the night you sat in our loft and sang
The moon was full and at her we howled
The nights were short and the days were too long,
Days were too long, days were too long, way too lo~oong
(breathe)
Ah, those were magical times that we had together back then
Oh, and you'd raise me up to the clouds and even higher up
I was your acrobat, always landing safely back in your arms
We'd have to be butterflies to feel ourselves any freer
And father would smile and wink at us from the ground
That was long ago; we don't have it that way anymore
Just between us two is a secret
Your dreams that we planted in soil down there
They grow from the ground when it's raining down,
Raining down, raining down, when it's raining down
I see it in you from my bed
Dreams sprouting up like flowerheads
And one very special and beautiful day
I'll leap over that fence with all I have
And I'll pick all of your dreams, 'till the ground is bare
Oh, you raised me higher, and higher, and higher and even higher up
I was your acrobat, always landing safely back in your arms
We'd have to be butterflies to feel ourselves any freer
And father would smile and wink at us from the ground
That was long ago; we don't have it that way anymore
I want back the times we had
You did the impossible
You made us feel like anything could occur
There was a rabbit in your top hat
I waited for an elephant
You pulled a rabbit out of your hat
I held my breath for an elephant