Nightmares

You keep stopping when you could be walking

Looking at the pictures on the wall

You keep quiet when you should be talking

You just don't make any sense at all

Remember when you were much younger

And you were lying in your bed

Among the satin sheets and pillows

Your mother there to ease your head

Mama, Mama, I keep having nightmares

Mama, Mama, Mama, am I ill?

Mama, Mama, Mama, hold me tightly (Tightly, tightly, tightly)

Mama, Mama, do you love me still?

But now it's different, you are older

There's no one here to hold your hand

Your mama's gone beyond the veil, Joan

There's no one left who understands

Mama, Mama, I keep having nightmares

Mama, Mama, Mama, am I ill?

Mama, Mama, hold me, hold me, tightly, tightly (Tightly, tightly)

Mama, Mama, do you love me still?

(Do you love me still?)

(Do you love me still?)

So you're left standing in the corner

You keep your face turned to the wall

A fading dream, a fading memory

A shooting star that had to fall

Mama, Mama, I keep having nightmares

Mama, Mama, Mama, am I ill?

Mama, Mama, hold me, hold me, tightly, tightly (Tightly, tightly)

Mama, Mama, do you love me still?

Mama, Mama, do you love me still?

Mama, Mama, do you love me still?

(Mama)