New Orleans
Reasonable Dreams
Mardi Gras · Mysterious · Modern Melodic Pop
Released January 31, 2025
#CHORUS
Somewhere in New Orleans
She hears the music of our love
She wakes, it was a dream
She cries a symphony of tears
#VERSE
Elaina Rutledge, just twenty-four
Hides from the jubilee
Down in the Quarter they laugh in the streets
Where last year, she laughed with me
#CHORUS
Somewhere in New Orleans
She seeks an emblem of our love
Watches a candle die
Wondering why I disappeared
#VERSE
Crowds on Canal Street with hearts open wide
Cheer for the shiny beads
She counts her heartaches on lonely doubloons
Is she still counting on me?
#BRIDGE
Jazz men play night and day
She won’t pretend to care
She sits alone, curses days gone
One Mardi Gras that we shared
#CHORUS
And somewhere in New Orleans
She sinks in sufferings of love
Kisses a dying dream
Wax from another candle cries
#VERSE
On the parade route outside her front door
The crowd noise ignites her pain
A candle, once blazing, refuses to die
It smolders, then bursts into flame
#CHORUS
Somewhere in New Orleans
Smoke rises from a sanguine love
Crowds turn from their parade
Watch as orange fire glows above
Somewhere in New Orleans
She dies in memories of love
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