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 I like nightmares

 I like being witless

 One for the news flash

 Cool eyewitness

 Eighty-one, eighty-two, eighty-three, it's happening

 Gotta be a fucking fool to blame TV

 Don't get trapped in

 If you're lucky, be the same as me

 I like nightmares

 Yes, I do

 There's a simple way to die they call it news

 There's a simple way to fly they call it booze

 There's an easy quiet escape, just sleep and cruise

 It's justifiable rape, they say you choose

And I like nightmares

I like feeling cheekless {?}

Lifting up my lighter {?}

Watching life with west {?}

'81, '82, '83, it's happening

Can we afford strike three

Don't trust the captain

He's just a boy like me

And I like nightmares, yes, I do

There's a common way to weep, they say just smoke

You can cry yourself to sleep, they say just toke

There's a path that never fails, you can't get lost

Don't need roads, you're on rails, I'll pay the cost

And I like nightmares, yes, I do

 We were wasted, but you're only waylaid once

 What we tasted was a voucher, pay their lunch

 We robbed their banks and we took their gold

 And our lies in the tank must've sounded old

 But we pleaded

 I said, "You're honor were not chumps, after all, we only did it once."

We like nightmares

We taste our fitness

All kind of goulash

A taint in the midwest

'81, '82, '83, it's happening

Nothing votes interest free

Don't care what it's wrapped in

You can be abreast like me

 And I like nightmares

 Yes, I do

I like nightmares