Recent Songs: I Prefer My Nightmares to My Dreams

I Prefer My Nightmares to My Dreams


Waiting for the other shoe
Is nothing new
To me
But I’ve never had to wait this long
For anything
To go wrong

What am I going to do with my heart?
It’s in no shape for anything real

I prefer my nightmares to my dreams
When I wake their talons release me
But in my dreams Eden’s are made
That I would die not to escape
I fall every time I open up my eyes

Everything you say is cruel
In a soft
Familiar way
Full of velvet and mirror shards
And to the music - god, how you sway

What am I going to do with my heart?
It’s too raw to taste your salt

And I prefer my nightmares to my dreams
But in the night you always visit me
And seldom have I been so scared
Of needles and thread meant to repair
Then, just before the dawn, you smile and leave

Waiting for the other shoe
Is nothing new
To me
But I’ve never had to wait this long
For anything
To go wrong

What am I going to do with my heart?
It’s in no shape to drum this beat

I prefer my nightmares to my dreams
I prefer my nightmares to my dreams…


July 12, 2015