Bad Dreams

Marty Willson-Piper/Dare Mason
(Interference Music)

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Nov. 21, 2018]

Almond eyes from paradise
It seems like I have won first prize
Time after time I close my eyes
Just to see inside my mind

The picture would come
A girl from a song
With a book in her hand
A guitar in the other

Strummin' small chords
With delicate fingers
And writing proud words
With a tune that would linger

(On and on)
To break the silence
(On and on)
To kill the valence
(Bring it back)
It's the juice that matters
(Those poor souls)
They're as mad as hatters
(We all know)
They're just not clever
They wouldn't evolve if they lived forever
As you step upon the place beyond bad dreams

Song after song you'd sing along
To explain, to engage, to excel
No one can win when philosophers think
In a farce without love will they choose to deny you
If you look up there's a world full of beauty
Is this alienation really your duty

And it's on and on
With pain, with torture
On and on
Can't you love your daughter
What kind of faith
Turns its back
Where is the light
When your inside's black
I'm wishing you'd halt
With your flesh and blood
How can you mess with a heart so good
You surely must sleep with long bad dreams

Making friends around the world
A special girl (a special girl)
Making waves in many ways
Your special girl
Your little girl

Now I have found the someone you lost
Turning away comes with a cost

She's sad 'cause of you
She's mad 'cause of you
She cries 'cause of you
Bad dreams 'cause of you
She can't sleep 'cause of you
She weeps 'cause of you
She's scared 'cause of you
Bad dreams 'cause of you
She bawls 'cause of you
(On and on, to break the silence)
She breaks 'cause of you
(On and on, to kill the valence)
She heals 'cause of you
(Bring it back, it's the truth that matters)
Bad dreams 'cause of you
(Those poor souls, they're as mad as hatters)
She recoils 'cause of you
(On and on, with pain, with torture)
She spoils 'cause of you
(On and on, can't you love your daughter)
She feels 'cause of you
(What kind of faith turns its back)
Bad dreams 'cause of you
(Where is the light when you're inside's black)
Bad dreams 'cause of you
Bad dreams 'cause of you
Bad dreams 'cause of you

She would die for you
She would die for you
Bad dreams 'cause of you
Bad dreams 'cause of you