Can you hear the whispers of an innocent, ignorant child?
In the ocean, get to swimmin´ or drown
How long has it been since you smiled?

Girl, I love the way your body fit inside that gown
Her Mama was a lady bug, her Papa was an atheist
Workin´ on a novel set in Cold War Romania
Chasin´ love, idolizin´ Joan of Arcadia
Pray the landscapers don´t wake her up
I´m a slave to the bass line
Conversation topic got us tangled in the grape vine
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
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
Let´s fall asleep to the metronome, yeah

She´s fallin´ for her hallucinations
But 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, woah
It´s only real if it´s real to you (Does it feel?)
It´s only real if it´s real to you (Is it real?)
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

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, woah
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 (Yes, yes, y´all)

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

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, woah
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