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Track 6) Fox Pajamas

from My Life as a Dancing Rat by Jonathan Rome

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lyrics

Life is a dream.
It must be if we can solve most of our math problems by,
Simply, moving numbers to the opposite side
of the equal sign.
But my dreams are stories to tell,
And I have a story to tell.


I’m walking in my state of dream.
In this figment of my imagination,
Where I can say “beam me up scotty”.
And soon I’m flying in some particle beam,
Admiring this stream
Of consciousness.
And I’m floating downstream
Midstream
Of the main stream
Of this mainstream
In my daydream.
With the sun beam
Changing the color scheme
Of the coal seams.
In this dream, everyone dresses supremely,
Embracing the new founded ancien regime,
And steam
Rises through the jet stream,
Crashing into the main city, agleam
With the lights of the people deemed
Worthy enough to be a part of this dream.
Like you...

Under the purple street light, you stand,
Hands
In pockets.
Locket around your neck,
You stand atop the promenade deck
Of a passenger ship.
I throw down a bargaining chip,
I want to take a gamble on you.
I wanna make a move
Prove to you
That gamblers can be true.
Your eyes are blue.
You’re wearing fox pajamas,
And your name is new.
You look like the kind of person that doesn’t have to try hard to be U-nique.

In this dream,
Where I am able to actually speak sensical words to you.
Where I can listen to your stories and speak my thoughts,
Where I can inject your love into my bloodstream.
Where my heart is yours to beseem…
In this teen scene,
The dream machine follows our heartbeats.
The craziest figures I can think
Of scream obscene
Things so we can laugh about whatever scheme
Went through their heads.
Just you and me
Tip-toeing over the city on a balance beam.
Blue eyes agleam,
Reflecting the rays of the moonbeam…
Can you see what I see?
The extreme imagery
Of fishes at the bream
Reaching new heights,
Jumping from their sea stream,
We stand on the promenade deck…
Together…

My hands in your pocket,
Locket around our necks.
In this dream where this possibility can feel like reality
Until light cracks the dark screen,
Opening the first scene of a new day
Where you are nowhere to be seen…

No…
NO!
Don’t wake me up!
It’s not just because I’m comfortable in the ninja turtle snuggie…
It’s because dreams allow us to do the things we could never do as human beings
In this reality,
And in reality,
We can never stand on the promenade deck…
Because there’s a locket around your neck.
There are hands in your pocket,
And a gleam in your eyes, not from the moonbeams…
But from the reflection of someone who’s wet dreams
Require you to take of those fox pajamas…
I love seeing you in thos fox pajamas…
It’s not because I don’t want to embrace my day,
Walking around campus with headphones in,
Spotting you with him
And thinking about the adventures we’ve lead
When you were in my head,
Stuck...
It’s because I, like many others, am scared of what I’ll see when I wake up…

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from My Life as a Dancing Rat, released November 11, 2016

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Johnny Rome Salinas, California

Poet, FIlmmaker, Author, Editor, Actor, Screen/Play writer, and Dancing Rat... If I can do anything being alive for 16 years, you can too.

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