Lecture 25

I know men who would kill you just for sitting in this room
From here you look so dull
The best people are thin, bones distorting skin
Tear off their shirts, get a firm grip
On the rib which you rip
I know men who have thought about going that far
I know men who have dreamed

When I was in Holland every blond was in love
You'll be alone in Berlin then meet with life, a little shove
Back when I was in New York death was a permanent light
Now I dream of London stuck with ghosts in the night

Here in LA we're half way there
The highlights of our lives are dimmer than some Dutch babies' dreams

I have a friend who should be killed
I'd do it myself but there's a law
I know I'll never feel fulfilled
I might do it if I find some time

If you're still young let's get together
If you're 26 don't even try
Yet you have tried and tried forever
To speak just one unuttered line

I have a friend who should be killed
He'd do it himself but he's too scared
Dreaming will never make it real
He just complains it isn't fair

You and I should feel constant pain
We should die of cancer after thirty years
You can float around until you're seventeen
Then your stomach will burn
Or you'll lose your hand in a light boating accident
Or be severed from the waist down
Asphyxi-are you listening now
Lose your head, lose your money, lose your wife
You think that's funny
In good time you will see

A blind man told me once I'm wasting my life
I have a friend who's mind could cure death
But he watches the reel

I had a dream I took three hundred
Sixty one point six six times
I was dreaming at a wedding
I just had to go on live
I had a dream about a battle
I was at war with my mistakes
I had a dream about Seattle
For the first time

I had a dream or was it real
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
I had a dream a useless dream
Where you can only dream of

I had a dream you played forever
To dance alone and never die
Stuck in the darkest room in Berlin
Brighter eyes declare you blind

I had a dream about believe
The name of my new band believe
I had a dream we played as wish
Believe, a Wish to Dream - Believe

I had a dream about a horse
In the village I was made
I had a dream of butterflies
Back in BC 368
I had a dream, an inner dream, a dream within a dream - to me, a dream
A wish that no one bothered me

I had a dream of sleeping rust
A simple dream of livid dust
I had a dream of going blind
A simple dream, an easy rhyme

I had a dream, a-mass-a-lump
A simple dream I asked for love
I had a dream you shook your ass
I had a dream, it was enough

Some of you will get out
Some of you will be lost
Let's now leave the hilton midtown
We'll be greeted as