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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2005-03-04 07:20 pm

Inside of a dream

I sang this song at the end of the Sunday night filk session at Redemption and have since had two requests for the words.

[livejournal.com profile] spacefall and [livejournal.com profile] sweetheartwhale this is for you:

What happens to old fans when they die? I decided this question deserved
serious consideration... (Oddly enough, I was using 'gay' in the sense of
'happy' in this particular song, but don't let that stop you taking it the other
way if you want to)


Inside of a Dream, by Judith Proctor, to the tune of Fiddler's Green.


As I walked a convention at dead of the night,
To see if a drink could be found before light,
I heard an old filk fan a-singing this song,
"Won't you take me away girls, my time is not long -"


CHORUS
Wrap me up in my fancy dress costume,
At conventions no more I'll be seen,
Just tell my old fan friends,
I've gone where it all ends,
And I'll see you someday inside of a dream.


Now fans share a dream and I've oft' heard them tell,
It's a place you can go if you don't to hell,
Where Blake is alive and Kerr Avon is gay,
And the cares of the real world are far far away -


The Feds are defeated and justice restored,
And Zen is still there with the crew all on board,
There's peace and there's love and there's laughter, by heck,
For they still have those arguments on the flight deck -


I don't want a harp nor a halo, not me,
Just give me the people I saw on TV,
And I'll play my old squeeze box as we sail along,
With myself and the crew all a-singing this song -


PS. You think I'm kidding about the squeeze box...?

[identity profile] spacefall.livejournal.com 2005-03-04 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Cheers for the post. That was my fave filk of the evening *sniff*