Richard Thompson - I Can't Wake Up To Save My Life lyrics

In my nightmare everything's wrong I'm waiting for love, but you come along You smile, you wave, you great me, Ciao! but you seem too happy to see me somehow Then the sky falls in on my head Your nails grow long, your eyes turn red You say, forever dear and a day You promise you're never going to go away And my feet won't move when I run the other way CHORUS I can't wake up to save my life I can't wake up to save my life In my nightmare you forgive me The cruellest gift you could ever give me You say that you understand me now But your eyes say, brother, I'll get you somehow Then the lightning streaks across the room You smell like something fresh from the tomb You squeeze too hard, you iinsist on kissing When it seems like half your face is missing And your hair's turned into reptiles hissing CHORUS Things I done make my dreams go bad Like Borstal boys coming home to Dad What ye reap so shall ye sow Now shake me, wake me, go man go CHORUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------