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Lucid Dream
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Song Meaning
Owl City's 'Lucid Dream' is a whimsical, imaginative song that explores the power of dreams and the wonder of the unseen. The lyrics describe a dreamer who finds escape and inspiration through vivid imagery, from passenger trains catching fire to diamonds falling like rain. The song poses a series of rhetorical questions about miracles, the impossible, and the nature of reality, suggesting that faith and curiosity are keys to understanding the world. While it touches on themes of hope and transcendence, it does not explicitly reference Christian doctrine or scripture, making it more of a secular reflection on imagination and wonder.
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I am a light sleeper
But I am a heavy dreamer
My imagination gives me wings
And I can go anywhere
And when I wander away, to some other place
I'm suddenly there, way up in the air
Where passenger trains catch fire and fill the sky with flames
And that black rabbit of death
Wakes up in a breath, of beautiful dreams
My heartache it seems, so terribly vain
Where fire and diamonds fall like rain
Do you believe in endless miracles?
Do you believe in the impossible?
Do you believe sleep is a time machine?
Do you believe in curiosity?
Do you believe in what you cannot see?
Do you believe life is a Lucid Dream?
Well that's how you study the stars
That's how you study the stars
And that's how you know them by heart
Life is a Lucid Dream
Such is the path of a dreamer
I find my way by moonlight
My imagination gives me wings
And I can go anywhere
And when I wander away, to some other place
I'm suddenly there, way up in the air
Where passenger trains catch fire and fill the sky with flames
And that black rabbit of death
Wakes up in a breath, of beautiful dreams
My heartache it seems, so terribly vain
Where fire and diamonds fall like rain
Do you believe in endless miracles?
Do you believe in the impossible?
Do you believe sleep is a time machine?
Do you believe in curiosity?
Do you believe in what you cannot see?
Do you believe life is a Lucid Dream?
Well that's how you study the stars
That's how you study the stars
And that's how you know them by heart
Life is a Lucid Dream
Well that's how you study the stars
That's how you study the stars
And that's how you know them by heart
Life is a Lucid Dream
I am a light sleeper
But I am a heavy dreamer