Sunset Boulevard Expedition

When the world comes, I'll listen

To that strange intuition

Let nothing cloud my vision

A world to build a bridge in

Sunset Boulevard Expedition

Saw it on the billboard

It's what I'm standing still for

See the smoke rise above the city

As the soul, it leaves the body

It leaves of its own volition

For a better paid position

Like some broke down, beat musician

He just left the band

Sometimes I go down to the ocean

Sometimes it comes to me

Sometimes I cross the sea

I wind up in Sydney Harbour

And I gaze up yonder starboard

I pick out brand new constellations

The stars are out of whack

So I place them in alignment

And the Opera House goes silent

I'm in the furthest row

Of that sold-out show

And your spirit fills the room now

No difference between me and you now

Sun ceded to the moon now

It's October and September soon now

See, time moves in both directions

With its ageless imperfections

It circles around our shoulders

Them big blue butterflies come over

On a dirt road in Costa Rica

Where, babe, I came to meet you

So nobody sees how I see you

How could anybody see how I see you?

It's as if you tune my body

Like a violin

And I can sing again

And so it begins

If I have to live without you

I'm just gonna dream about you

I'm not gonna let you fade away

I'm not made that way

If I have to live without you

I'm just gonna dream about you

I'm not gonna let you fade away

I'm not made that way

If I have to live without you

I'm just gonna dream about you

I'm not gonna let you fade away

I'm not made that way

The world is now so dreamlike

My dreams are now so lifelike

Tell me now what does that seem like

There's no surer path to madness

Only, baby, if you had this

You'd realize that I

Might be the butterfly

Dreaming of the man who wrote this