Quarantine Dreams- lyrics
© 2021 Charles Duke


You played her song twice
In the car before my flight
You didn’t speak, but you were speaking clearly

Last night I tried to hold you tight
You rolled over and you sighed
You didn’t speak, but you were speaking clearly

When I ask you about your life
who you’re dating, the whole nine
You didn’t say, but you were speaking clearly

So what am I supposed to hear
Took a whole life to be here
Risking my life to be here
So when you say you want me here I am, but are you near

Just so we can be clear
Clear the past from the air
Suffocating in silence
Jhené Aiko in my ears

Just so we can be clear
Clear the past from the air
Suffocating in silence
Jhené Aiko in my ears

I got your soundtrack in the air
Aiko in my ears
I hear your soundtrack everywhere

Spoken:

I’m not the autobiographical type
I still hope we’d make this right
Find our way back to that first date—
the first time you said you loved me over chicken wings

That’s how you know it’s a real thing
When nothing’s planned but creating
All that we are missing is our language
Are we trying

I’m trying to forgive our hard-stance leaning
It’s frustrating
I know I’m not perfect, I have faults
But time is wasting
I’m headed back to the airport
And we’ve never stood this far apart before
I thought you said you want me
Here I am, but are you near

Just so we can be clear
Clear the past from the air
Suffocating in silence,
Jhené Aiko in my ears

Just so we can be clear
Clear the past from the air
Suffocating in silence
Jhené Aiko in my ears

I got your soundtrack in the air
Aiko in my ears
I hear your soundtrack everywhere

You can’t ignore all of these quarantine dreams
wandering what will be after quarantine
You can’t ignore all of these quarantine dreams
thoughts of you and me after quarantine

You can’t ignore all of these quarantine dreams
wandering what will be after quarantine
You can’t ignore all of these quarantine dreams
thoughts of you and me after quarantine

You played her song twice, yeah twice
Won’t you say what’s on your mind
Even if it takes all night.