It Begins With A Blessing/Once I Awakened/But It Ends With A Curse - Kevin Ayers

It begins with a blessing

But it ends with a curse

Making life easy

But making it worse

My mask is my master

The trumpeter weeps

But his voice is so weak

As he speaks from his sleep

Saying

Why why why are we sleeping?

Now people are watching

People who stare

Waiting for something

That’s already there

Tomorrow I’ll find it

The trumpeter screams

Then remembers that he’s hungry

And he drowns in his dreams

Singing

Why why why are we sleeping?

My head is a night club

With glasses and wine

But the customers dancing

They’re just marking time

You can turn to your partner and say

How does it seem?

And she will look at you and say

Get out of my dream …

Oh why why why are we sleeping?

Once I awakened my eyes filled with tears

I had been sleeping for thousands of years

Dreaming a life full of problems and sadness

Endlessly turning in spirals of madness

Where the wind blows

That’s where it all goes

It follows the song

Like its dream … singing …

So it begins with a blessing

But it ends with a curse

Making life easy

But making it worse

Just turn to your partner and say

How does it seem?

He’ll look at you and say

Get out of my dream

Why why why are we sleeping?