The vinyl sparkles on the seat where you are scheming the ticket window won't open until you start believing in the wonders you once found in a fabric store uptown while the horoscope proves wet paper on the ground you belly-flop across life's little hurdles night clubs and yo-yo diets turning turning you in circles well reality doesn't care if you do or don't dye your hair whatever you choose don't let your soul vanish in thin air half asleep (half asleep) you may take this song for granted half alive life is disenchanting sometimes the escalator to fortune somehow eludes you mixing m&m's and essential oils doesn't always work for you and what of deserted homes where the dear and dysfunctional roam wrap it up with a letter and a bow half asleep (half asleep) you may take this song for granted half alive life is disenchanting sometimes disenchanting sometimes