One time ago a crazy dream came to me
I dreamt I was walkin' into World War Three
Went to the doctor the very next day
To see what kinda words he could say, he said it was a bad dream
"I wouldn't worry 'bout it none, though
Them old dreams are only in your head"
I said, "Hold it, Doc, a World War pa**ed through my brain"
He said, "Nurse, get your pad, the boy's insane"
He grabbed my arm, I said "Ouch"
As I landed on the psychiatric couch, he said, "Tell me about it"
Well, the whole thing started at 3 o'clock fast, it was all over by quarter past
I was down in the sewer with some little lover
When I peeked out from a manhole cover
Wonderin' who turned the lights on us
Well, I got up and walked around, up and down the lonesome town
I stood a-wondering which way to go
I lit a cigarette on a parking meter and walked on down the road
It was a normal day
Well, I rung me a fallout shelter bell and I leaned my head and I give a yell
"Gimme a string bean, I'm a hungry man"
A shotgun fired and away I ran
I don't blame them too much though, they didn't know me
Down the corner by the hot-dog stand, I seen a man
I said, "Howdy friend, I guess it's just us two"
He screamed a bit and away he flew
Thought I was a Communist
Well, I spied a girl and before she could leave, I said "Let's go and play Adam and Eve"
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'
She said, "Hey man, you crazy or sumpin'?
You see what happened last time they started"
Well, I seen a Cadillac window uptown, there was nobody around
I got into the driver's seat and I drove 42nd Street
In my Cadillac
Good car to drive after a war
Well, I remember seein' some ad
So I turned on my Conelrad
But I didn't pay the Con Ed bill
So the radio didn't work so well
Turned on my record-player
It was "Rock-A-Day Johnny," singing
"Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa
Our Love's A-Gonna Grow Ooh-wah, Ooh-wah"
I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue
And I needed somebody to talk to
So I called up the operator of time
Just to hear a voice of some kind
"When you hear the beep
It will be three o'clock"
She said that for over an hour
And I hung up
Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then
Sayin, "Hey I've been havin' the same old dreams
But mine was a little different, you see
I dreamt that the only person left after the war was me
I didn't see you around"
Well, now time pa**ed and now it seems everybody's having them dreams
Everybody sees theirself walkin' around with no one else
Half of the people can be part-right all of the time, some of the people can be all right part of the time
But all the people can't be all right all the time, I think Abraham Lincoln said that
"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours"
I said that