(Charles Mingus)
Weird nightmare
You haunt my every dream

Weird nightmare
Tell me what's your scheme?
Can it be that you're a part

Of a lonely broken heart?

Weird nightmare

Why must you torment me?
Weird nightmare
Pain and misery

In a heart that's loved and lost
Take away the grief you've caused


Can't sleep at night
Twist, turn in fright
With the fear that I'll live it all again

In my dreams

You're there to haunt me

When you say she doesn't want me
I've been hurt
Do you know what that means?


Weird nightmare
Take away this dream you've born

Weird nightmare
Mend a heart that's torn
That has paid the price of love

A thousand fold
Bring me a love
With a heart of gold


Weird nightmare