[This song is dedicated to the memory of Katherine Korzilius.]

[Sometimes God calls His angels ... too soon.]



Ah...

It was another day

Perfect Texas afternoon

Mother and two children play

The way they always do

As they raced home from the mailbox

A mother and her son

Against a little girl of six years old

The independent one



Ah...

The deputies went door to door through all the neighborhood

They said I got some news to tell you folks

I'm afraid it ain't so good

Somehow something happened

Someone got away

Someone got the answers for what happened here today

Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no



Tell me it was just a dream - August 7, 4:15

God closed His eyes and the world got mean - August 7, 4:15



Now the people from the papers

And the local TV news tried to find the reason

Cop dogs sniffed around for clues

Someone shouted "Hit and run"

The coroner cried "Foul"

Her blue dress was what she wore

The day they laid her body down

Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no



Tell me it was just a dream - August 7, 4:15

God closed His eyes and the world got mean - August 7, 4:15

No...



[Guitar solo]



I know tonight that there's an angel up on Heaven's highest hill

And no one there can hurt you baby, no one ever will

Somewhere someone's conscience is like a burning bed

The flames are all around you

How you gonna sleep again ?

Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no



Tell me it was just a dream - August 7, 4:15

God closed His eyes and the world got mean - August 7, 4:15



Tell me it was just a dream - August 7, 4:15

God closed His eyes and the world got mean - August 7, 4:15

[ 4:15 to fade ]