[Verse 1]
Oh, my love, you are a constant contradiction
Your heart reads fantasy, your head nonfiction
Last night, you told me you don't believe in "the one"
Yet your eyes fill with tears as you watch the setting sun
It makes me sad to think you can't see a life with me
'Cause I dreamt we'd have some land one day
And plant some apple trees

[Chorus]
Oh, I know you think I'm just a dreamer
And I know you think if I climb too high, I'll fall
Baby, when you say I'm just a dreamer
You're blowing out the candles in my heart
You're blowing out the candles in my heart

[Verse 2]
I know you don't wanna hurt mе as much as I don't wanna hurt you
But, fuck, it hurts to think of one of us with somebody new
'Causе when we're intertwined like lovers underneath the twilight covers
Time slows for a moment and our differences subside
It's like angels are watching over us while there's nothing to say
As we drift out in the water under moonlight far away

[Chorus]
Oh, I know you think I'm just a dreamer
And I know you think if I climb too high, I'll fall
When you laugh and say I'm just a dreamer
You're blowing out the candles in my heart
You're blowing out the candles in my heart
[Verse 3]
The first Christmas we were in love, you gave me a poetry book of Sylvia's
You wrote inside that you had caught a falling star
I wondered why you felt I was falling rather than shooting
Thought, "How can someone so romantic build up so many walls?"
Oh, if you just let me, I can show you how to ask for more

[Chorus]
Oh, I know you think I'm just a dreamer
And I know you think if I reach too high, I'll fall
But, baby, when you say I'm just a dreamer
You're blowing out the candles in my heart
Oh, you're blowing out the candles in my heart

[Bridge]
I know my eyes are full of moon just like Joni's always were
You listen to her objectively while I imagine I am her
Oh, I know she was your first love
And you admire her all the same
If only you could see that my fire was built from her roaring flame

[Chorus]
Oh, I know you think I'm just a dreamer
And I know you think if I climb too high, I'll fall
Baby, when you say I'm just a dreamer
You're blowing out the candles in my heart
You're blowing out the candles in my heart