Tick tock a distant country suffers from genocide.
While I sleep children starve in the streets, it's their everyday life
Tick tock the weight of the years comes crashing down.

I see now what has to be done and why
I can't waste any more time
In my dreams the pharaohs comfort me

In my dreams I'm wide awake
In my dreams temptation comes for me
In my dreams I'm wide awake

Floating down a river now, to my left is a village
Rich with love and spiritual guidance
But within minutes I look back and all I see

The tattered remains of war. The tattered remains of war
The tattered remains of war. The tattered remains of war
Not too hard to see when you open your eyes

It's not too hard to see when you open your eyes
To my left is the hearts of the ignorant
To my right is our self proclaimed innocence

To my left is a clear path with sunny skies
To my right, a foggy swamp, a barren desert
My eyes are open, my eyes are shut

The people crying, they wake me up
Do we have the passion to make a change?
I can't wake up, my dreams are real. My dreams are real

It's easy to dismiss your natural human emotions
For people that are far away
It's easy to accept the crimes of your government

Until everything has been taken from you
The people rise up, the people they fight
The people take back what's theirs and what's right

The people rise up, the people they fight
The people take back what's theirs and what's right


Another person dies, another bomb falls. Tic toc, tic toc
Another child starves, another bomb falls. Tic toc, tic-toc
Tic-toc, tic-toc. Tic-toc, tic-toc.

Tic-toc, tic-toc. Tic-toc, tic-toc...
In my dreams the pharaohs comfort me
In my dreams I'm wide awake

In my dreams temptation comes for me
In my dreams I'm wide awake
Is this the nature we have so willingly embraced?

Reinforced by corporate media
They round up even the smartest ones, bribe them into slavery
Who needs to see their kids anyway?

My eyes are open, my eyes are shut
The people crying, they wake me up
Do we have the passion to make a change?

I can't wake up, my dreams are real. My dreams are real