Friendly Hallucinations

Can you hear the whispers of an innocent, ignorant child? (Child)

In the ocean, get to swimmin' or drown (drown)

How long has it been since you smiled? (Smiled)

Girl, I love the way your body fit inside that gown (that gown)

Her Mama was a ladybug, her Papa was an atheist

Workin' on a novel set in Cold War Romania ('Mania)

Chasin' love, idolizin' Joan of Arcadia

Pray the landscapers don't wake her up (her up)

I'm a slave to the bass line

Conversation topic got us tangled in the grapevine

Still wide awake, I'm a stranger to the daytime

Vampire, higher than a hang glider

Look around and all I see is gray skies (gray skies)

There's help inside that medicine cabinet

Came in for the answers, but she left with a habit

There's no one on the other end of that telephone ('phone)

Let's fall asleep to the metronome (the metronome), yeah

She's fallin' for her hallucinations (hallucinations)

But what's love without imagination? Yeah

Baby, don't let them tell you what's real and what's not (and what's not)

There's a paradise waiting on the other side of the dock, whoa

It's only real if it's real to you (does it feel?)

It's only real if it's real to you

It's only real if it's real to you (said, what's it feel like? Yeah)

Tell me, is it real if you can't hold it in your arms, but it can touch you?

Feel its texture pressin' up against your chest, you say, "I love you" (you don't hear it back)

Fallin' victim to a world that's filled with satire, Mark Twain admired

Open Tom Sawyer, read a passage to the cab driver

She only in the back seat of a taxi 'cause her car is in the shop with a flat tire

Mom say she believe her, but she always been a bad liar

Had a plan to burn her past, but it backfired

Hold on and be strong, kneel before your king

The land you put your knees on, it won't be long 'til your path finds ya

And if love is just a fantasy

Then what's the problem if you fall in love with fantasy?

They assume she's confused with delusions she's creatin'

In the waitin' room for psychiatric evaluation

She doesn't have the patience to be treated like a patient

It'll be okay if she just swallow this pill

She's fallin' for her hallucinations

What's love without imagination? Yeah

Baby, don't let them tell you what's real and what's not

There's a paradise waiting on the other side of the dock, whoa

It's only real if it's real to you

It's only real if it's real to you

It's only real if it's real to you

Havin' conversations with friendly hallucinations

I'll be havin' conversations with friendly hallucinations

They don't need no explanation, there is beauty in creation, my Lord

Havin' conversations with friendly hallucinations

I'll be havin' conversations with friendly hallucinations

They don't need no explanation, there is beauty in creation, my Lord

My Lord

She's fallin' for her hallucinations

What's love without imagination? Yeah

Baby, don't let them tell you what's real and what's not

There's a paradise waiting on the other side of the dock, whoa

It's only real if it's real to you

It's only real if it's real to you

It's only real if it's real to you