Bad Dream

This is a winter story

Where memory lies deep

And the factory of dreams

Prepares a night of restless sleep

Bad dreams

Violent dreams

Somewhere in the mist of my childhood

Asleep but still awake

A giant shadow covered me

And melted like a snowflake

My mother could not hear me

My lips were turning blue

Till the morning sun broke my window

And rose to my rescue

A bad dream

I'm wondering where is the doorway to yesterday's secrets?

Well, let me give you the women's perspective

Ever since I was a little girl

They all said, "Don't go out alone at night

It's a hungry, dangerous world"

It's a bad dream

Bad dream

I'm wondering where is the shelter for runaway angels?

A backwoodsman comes down to the rodeo

With a basket full of Bibles

Then he broke into a falsetto

He goes, "woo-ooh, woo-ooh"

It's a dream

I'm wondering where is the country I promised my children?