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The Dream

from The Dream by Tracie Potochnik

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    A tri-fold matte cd cover with lots of artwork, plus a 12-panel booklet with all the lyrics... AND more artwork! I know you don't buy a lot of physical cds anymore... but you will probably want this one.

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lyrics

Honey was the hottest thing on eight little wheels
Down at The Dream every Friday night
She’d roll backwards and forwards, let herself be adored
Under the disco ball’s sparkling lights
There was a boy one summer working at the hotel
And the way he moved suited her fine
He said she’s the one thing worth stealing
From this tourist town
And I’m gonna make her mine

They went round and round and he took her hand
Like it was shipwrecked treasure he’d found
She could still remember every moment
The day The Dream shut down

They’d go and sit on the beach
The future just out of reach
He’d point across the waves and say
There’s a big old world just waiting
We can see it all someday
Honey tried to act unimpressed
But couldn’t help to confess
The dreams she’d never said out loud
How she wanted to be more than a roller queen
Or a standout in a small pond crowd

They went round and round and he said my love
You can be bigger than this town
She could still remember every word
The day The Dream shut down

The days grew shorter and the seagulls all soared off
To a warmer coast
He said another month I’m leaving
Come with me when I go
She went round and round like a riptide
Felt her courage growing thin
He pulled up to take her away
She said maybe one last spin

He sent postcards from Paris
She got pregnant and married
Never seemed to want much more
She tried not to think about how she could’ve got out
Till she watched The Dream close its doors

She sat across the street and wandered back
When hope hung heavy like a crown
She could still remember every moment
Clear enough to make her drown
She could still remember every moment
Though she never made a sound
She remembered every moment
The day The Dream shut down

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from The Dream, released October 15, 2013

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Tracie Potochnik Providence, Rhode Island

Providence-based singer-songwriter Tracie Potochnik is noted for applying simple arrangements and delicately crafted narratives to songs exposing the complexity of the human condition. Tracie brings three chords, the truth, and occasionally a mandolin to her shows. She once killed a man in Reno, but not just to watch him die. Bastard had it coming. ... more

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