"Bad Dream" lyrics
Paul Simon & Edie Brickell Lyrics
This is a winter story
Where memory lies deep
And the factory of dreams
Prepares a night of restless sleep
Bad dreams
Violent dreams
Somewhere in the mist of my childhood
Asleep but still awake
A giant shadow covered me
And melted like a snowflake
My mother could not hear me
My lips were turning blue
Till the morning sun broke my window
And rose to my rescue
A bad dream
I'm wondering where is the doorway to yesterdays secrets?
Well, let me give you the women's perspective
Ever since I was a little girl
They all said "Don't go out alone at night
It's a hungry dangerous world"
It's a bad dream
Bad dream
I'm wondering where is the shelter for runaway angels?
A backwoods man come down to the rodeo
With a basket full of bibles
Then he broke into a falsetto
He goes "Woo, ooh, woo, ooh"
It's a dream
I'm wondering where is the country I promised my children?
Where memory lies deep
And the factory of dreams
Prepares a night of restless sleep
Bad dreams
Violent dreams
Somewhere in the mist of my childhood
Asleep but still awake
A giant shadow covered me
And melted like a snowflake
My mother could not hear me
My lips were turning blue
Till the morning sun broke my window
And rose to my rescue
A bad dream
I'm wondering where is the doorway to yesterdays secrets?
Well, let me give you the women's perspective
Ever since I was a little girl
They all said "Don't go out alone at night
It's a hungry dangerous world"
It's a bad dream
Bad dream
I'm wondering where is the shelter for runaway angels?
A backwoods man come down to the rodeo
With a basket full of bibles
Then he broke into a falsetto
He goes "Woo, ooh, woo, ooh"
It's a dream
I'm wondering where is the country I promised my children?
