/// *** /// [Intro — 12-string acoustic fingerpicked, piano joins bar 5, warm and gentle, 8 bars] [Verse 1 — male vocal, intimate, just guitar and piano] I still have the cassette you made me In the summer you believed in tapes I play it on the drive through November When the sky turns the colour of your face You sang three songs in your bedroom With the window open to the rain And something in the way you held the melody Made everything okay [Pre-Chorus — bass enters, warmth building] You always said that music Was the place where true things live And every song you ever sang to me Was everything you couldn't give In words [Chorus — strings enter, female backing vocals, gentle swell] Blue sky dream girl Sing me something real Blue sky dream girl You're the only thing I feel When the world goes grey and ordinary And I've forgotten how to see Blue sky dream girl Please write a new song For me [Verse 2 — electric guitar joins, crystalline chorus pedal] I heard your voice in a coffee shop In someone else's headphones on a train I sat so still I missed my stop Just to stay inside that sound again They say you're playing shows now In cities I will never find my way But I keep the cassette rewound and ready For the ordinary days [Pre-Chorus — fuller, strings warming] You always said that music Was the place where lost things stay And I have been so lost In every place You played [Chorus — fuller, backing vocals more present] Blue sky dream girl Sing me something real Blue sky dream girl You're the only thing I feel When the world goes grey and ordinary And I've forgotten how to see Blue sky dream girl Please write a new song For me [Bridge — everything drops to piano alone, vocal close and quiet] I don't need you back I just need the sound Of someone who believed That beautiful things Are worth the finding Worth the keeping Worth the— *(strings return, slowly)* *(voice rising)* Singing — even when No one is listening Especially then [Final Chorus — fullest arrangement, falsetto on last held note] Blue sky dream girl Sing me something real Blue sky dream girl You're the only thing I feel When the world goes grey and ordinary And I've forgotten how to see Blue sky dream girl *(voice lifting into falsetto)* Please — write — a new song *(held, fading)* For — me [Outro — 12-string returns alone, same as intro, piano joins, both fade together, tape hiss fading last]
