Caroline Polachek - Go As a Dream (Lyric Booklet)

Official lyric booklet for "Go As A Dream" by Caroline Polachek off the album "Pang."

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Animated by Arvin Bautista

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[Colin]

This album is the auditory equivalent of when you watch a wheel spin so fast that it starts to flicker backwards slowly

[maren]

I used to listen to this album every day during my 40 minute walk home from work at dusk in the cold late fall of 2020 while I was getting over an intense short lived relationship where I got dumped. The sound so perfectly encapsulates the energy from that time for me.

[AlephYobby]

Caroline returns to her roots: singing the letter "A"

[mayhembunz]

The lyrics make me think of waking up after dreaming of someone you loved that passed on. Really beautiful song.

[joebrown]

I'm loving this song. I'm a sucker for her melancholy tracks.

[lourdeschavez]

She makes me feel like running through the Versailles palace at night while wearing my hair in a messy braid with small flowers on it and pastel pink night gown with no shoes🦋

[frogdude]

Lyrics:
Someone changed the clock and left the window open
When I must have drifted off
And it's just your kind of trick
To leave me empty-handed
Leave me with a riddle unsolved

Ah, ah, hmm
I don't know if I can do this
I don't know if I can make this peace

And you're almost like that card
Played by the magician
But this time you're not coming back
And it's slipping through my fist
Blurry at the edges
Leaving only legend
You go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream

Ah, ah, hmm
I don't know if I can do this
I don't know if I can make this piece

And it hit me like a brick of joke
Without a punchline
A script that nobody read
If you saw me lying here
Through my bedroom ceiling
You'd have me pick up my head
And go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream

Ah, ah, hmm

Ah, ah, hmm

[eve]

My favourite of the album. So mesmerising and the lyrics are beautiful

[skiddlydip]

i feel like i live in the scottish highlands and am communicating with a faerie that visits me on full moons on my wooden window frame. in the middle of summer

[animegirl]

This song makes me want to slowly walk through a large flower field at night looking at the stars with my long white dress flowing in the wind and only being guided by the soft glow of my lantern but not having an exact destination

[isoblah]

her voice is such a dream. 🌼 enchanting. 🌼

[NhanPham]

Her ethereal voice brought me to the dreamy atmosphere of the novel Night On The Galactic Railroad by Miyazawa Kenji.

[heyimbrian]

Isn’t it a stunning blow how much of an impression we can leave on each other? To have it go as far as thinning your grasp on reality... to genuinely reconcile with the idea that someone came and went just as a nights sleep does…

[JustAsk]

I get some "Mother Stands for Comfort" vibes, in the beginning especially. The piano sounds and the odd rhythm patterns.

[wildoutdooreducation]

How strange, my first love just passed and he's always been represented by the magician card... for this song to come on, its like a love letter.

[oliwierkowalczyk]

I'm imagining someone sitting on grass. It's nightime. It's starry. There's an aurora borealis in the sky. That's how the song makes me feel.

[jaredskyemusic]

I freaking love this song much! I wasn't expecting to love this song at all cuz at first it's too slow but Caroline' s voice is a dream!

[Lolabuns]

Someone changed the clock and left the window open
When I must have drifted off
And it's just your kind of trick
To leave me empty handed
Leave me with a riddle unsolved

Ah, ah, hmm
I don't know if I can do this
I don't know if I can make this piece

And you're almost like that card
Played by the magician
But this time you're not coming back
And it's slipping through my fist
Blurry at the edges
Leaving only legend
You go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream

Ah, ah, hmm
I don't know if I can do this
I don't know if I can make this piece

And it hit me like a brick
A joke without a punchline
A script that nobody read
If you saw me lying here
Through my bedroom ceiling
You would have me pick up my head
And go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream

Ah, ah, hmm
Ah, ah, hmm

[HermeneuticallySealed]

Ethereal and mesmerizing. Amazing work!!!!

[JoshGoingRAW]

Finally listened to the full album since I'm seeing her in concert next month! You know how there's always one (more obscure) song on an album that becomes your fav? This is definitely my favorite from Pang, such a beautiful song