Jack's Mannequin – Restless Dream lyrics

Jack's Mannequin – Restless Dream lyrics

I write you from this grounded airplane
I wonder how you've been and where you are
A letter to the one who slipped away
A letter for the things that never start

Oh my imagination's running wild
Guess I've missed you from the day we first met
Crazy, this fascination makes a sound
Like a twister in my mind
Restless dream we left behind I never will forget

It's funny how the words we never say
Can turn into the only thoughts we know
But austin's just so very far away
And I can not believe I let you go

Oh my imagination's running wild
Guess I've missed you from the day we first met
Crazy, this fascination makes a sound
Like a twister in my mind
Restless dream we left behind
I never will forget this restless dream

And so I call to you from the darkness of my room
You will never be a memory now your restless dream
Your restless dream

So I write to this address I don't know
You said you had to leave and we lost track
So if you hear this song on the radio
I've said it now and there's no turning back

Oh my imagination's running wild
Guess I've missed you from the day we first met
Crazy, this fascination makes a sound
Like a twister in my mind
Restless dream we left behind
I never will forget this restless dream
This restless dream

Lyrics taken from /lyrics/j/jacks_mannequin/restless_dream.html

Songwriters: ANDREW ROSS MCMAHON

Restless Dream lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

Corrected by Mark Fitzgerald

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Unregistered 2020-08-15 00:21:02

For me, it reminds me of my dad. We were estranged for the majority of my childhood. We briefly reconnected in my early 20s but I still had bitterness and resentment. I turned my back on having a relationship with him. He passed away 3 1/2 years ago from stage IV bladder cancer. He listed no next of kin and it was months later that we found out. For me, personally, this song describes our relationship...
A letter for the things that never start (our relationship)
Funny how the words we never say turn into the only thoughts we know...and I cannot believe I let you go. This is the deepest lyric for me. Everything I never said out loud, I say in my head over and over. I had the chance for a meaningful relationship and I turned by back and let him go.
The restless dream we left behind, I never will forget...what we could have had, will always be in my heart.
He is not a memory. He is my restless dream because I will never forgive myself. He wanted a relationship. He tried to make up, as best as he could, for lost time. He tried to live in the present. I couldn’t let the past go.

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Unregistered 2012-03-09 21:24:59

This song isn't about an ex-girlfriend at all. And regardless of what andrew says, literature speaks for itself- his intention is invalid. If you really look closely, he never had a relationship with her at all. He is just obsessed with her, and trying to convince himself that they had something.
-"a letter for the things that never start"
-"so i write to this address that i don't know"
-"guess i've missed you from the day that we first met"
He is trying to convince himself that he ever had a chance with her. Its like he wants to believe that she "slipped away" but they never had anything to begin with. And when he says, "i've said it now and there's no turning back" he is saying that this is his first confession of his love.
Think about it. Its waaay deeper than an ex-girlfriend.

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