Bad Dreams
(Rhythm Guitar, Baritone Uke, Electric Guitar: Chase Macri)
Odd Instruments: Baritone Ukelele, Samples, Old Hammond Organ,
Sometimes I dream I lost my friends
I told them lies that left them all defenseless
Just to get away from their ugly pretenses
And let them know that I am fine alone
Sometimes I throw out my guitar
Or leave it burning and the ashes are scattered
But the muse inside just turns on me in laughter
Seems he never shuts up
Bad dreams, life seems like I’m half-asleep
I find myself on an overpass
Where souls fly by and I am driven to laughter
At the mere thought of life and death and after
And what it means to them
Sometimes I lay down my life
And sacrifices are too great not to offer
Discord screams, but peace is always softer
And that’s the best we can do
Bad dreams, life seems like I’m half-asleep
Give me time and it will work itself out
That’s what I tell myself to drive away the doubt
That things will ever change now
Everybody must have days like these
And nights as lonely as the inside of me
Now I can’t complain
I guess I found that the mistakes we make
Are the things that keep us wide awake
Yet bind us together
I don’t profess to have all the answers
And Lord knows I can’t keep it all together
The way you think I should now
Bad dreams
Everyone (I tell myself) has these nihilistic tendencies just beneath
our level of self control that make us want to break things that we're
really quite fond of... perhaps because we don't want to be broken
by them. I never actually had this dream in a literal sense, by the
way.