
Date of issue: 07.04.1973
Record label: Solid Rock
Song language: English
Nightmare #71 |
Last night i had that same old dream it rocked me in my sleep |
And left me the impression that the sandman plays for keeps |
I dreamed i was in concert in the middle of the clouds |
John wayne and billy graham were giving breath mints to the crowds |
I fell through a hole in heaven i left the stage for good |
And when i landed on the earth i was back in hollywood |
The california earthquake it tore the land in half |
While san andreas cleared her throat i heard tsunami laugh |
The ground began to tremble the land began to sway |
And people in the other states they were glad they’d moved away |
But suddenly california just floated in the breeze |
While every state that wasn’t sank down into the seas |
And soon i saw atlantis rumble and rise high |
And the great egg of euphrates came down out of the sky |
And out stepped shirley temple with guy kippee who was dead |
And that communist bill robinson whom shirley called black red |
They have a marionette of harpo marx they said it was an inside joke |
But when i honked his horn he came alive and these were the words he spoke |
With the continents adrift and the sun about to shift |
Will the ice caps drown us all or will we burn |
We’ve polluted what we own will we reap what we have sown? |
Are we headed for the end or can we turn? |
We’ve paved the forest killed the streams |
Burned the bridges to our dreams |
The earth is bursting at the seams |
And in pain of childbirth screams |
As it gives life to what seems |
To either be an age that gleams |
Or simply lays there dying |
If this goes on will life survive how can it |
Out of the grave oh who will save our planet? |
I said i’m pleased to meet you i always thought you were a scream |
He said have you ever thought of having helen keller in your dreams |
I said errol flynn dropped by but he tried to steal my girl |
The she ran off with ronald colman said something about a new world |
Now i’m stuck with my own cooking hey i’m lonely can’t you see |
Well he grabbed my leg and said exactly eighty nine words to me |
Count them let the proud but dying nation kiss the last generation |
It’s the year of the pill, age of the gland |
We have landed on the moon but we’ll clutter that up soon |
Our sense of freedom’s gotten out of hand |
We kill our children swap our wives |
We’ve learned to greet a man with knives |
We swallow pills in fours and five |
S our cities look like crumbling hives |
Man does not live he just survives |
We sleep till he arrives |
Love is a corpse we sit and watch it harden |
We left it oh so long ago the garden |
The strings snapped briskly then went slack the marionette lay dead |
While hoover played with the motorcade the body slumped and bled |
The man who held the camera disappeared into the crowd |
I said the hope of youth, fictitious truth, lays covered in a shroud |
Then up walked elmo lincoln and he said i beg you pardon |
But we left it oh so long ago, the garden |
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