I Like Nightmares - The Who

I like nightmares

I like being witless

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Eighty one, eighty two, eighty three, it’s happening

Got to be a fucking fool to blame TV, don’t get trapped in

If you are lucky be the same as me

I like nightmares, yes I do

There is a simple way to die they call it news

There is a simple way to fly they call it booze

There is an easy quiet escape just sleep and cruise

It is justifiable rape they say you choose

I like nightmares

I like feeling chick less

Flicking my lighter

Watching life flit west

Eighty one, eighty two, eighty three, it is happening

Can we afford to strike three, do not trust the captain

He is just a boy like me

And I like nightmares, yes I do

There is a common way to weep they say just smoke

You can cry yourself to sleep they say just toke

There is a path that never fails you cannot get lost

Do not need roads, you are on rails I will pay the cost

And I like nightmares, yes I do

We were wasted, but you are only waylaid once

What we tasted was a voucher bag and lunch

We robbed their bank and we took their gold

And our lies in the tank must have sounded old

But we pleaded

I said, «Your honor, we are not chumps

After all, we only did it once!»

We like nightmares

They test our fitness

A full can of goulash

A taint in the mid-west

Eighty one, eighty two, eighty three, it is happening

Nothing floats interest free, do not care what it is wrapped in

You could be abreast like me

And I like nightmares, yes I do

I like nightmares