A buzzer sounds to wake you up
And steals a dream that you thought was real
You close your eyes again

Feel your face with your hand, again you dream
But not the same
A different name, another game

You'd like to stay, you know you can't

You leave your bed to wet your face

First water hot, then water cold
You see yourself as half awake
You know you're young, you feel so old

And as the dark turns slow to gray
It's neither night, it's neither day
You'd like to stay, you know you can't


You look away now, you look away now
You look away from all the thoughts

and things you once dreamed you'd like to do
But all that you can think about is what's confronting you
Is all that you can think about is what's confronting you?


You turn the light to find some clothes
You put them on, go to the stove

You place the water on the flame
The faucet drips into the drain
You clank a spoon inside a cup

A cigarette, you know you're up
You ask for what, you cannot say


Life bleeding life
Which labors on with every breath
And takes you reeling, blindly wheeling

Ever closer to your death
You hear the judge and jury curse
You watch them sentence you to thirst

And as you move from womb to breast
From nothingness to nothingness


You look away now, you look away now
You look away from all the thoughts
and things you once dreamed you'd like to do

But all that you can think about is what's confronting you
Is all that you can think about
Is all that you can think about is what's confronting you?


Go back to bed and spend the day
Go back to sleep and hide away

Inside a dream, through miles and miles
Of dreary gray, you'd like to stay
You know you can't