Oh dreaming world

Some of you swear it's no nightmare

Others dance in frightening costumes

The moon sheds a shallow light

The crickets chirp mindlessly

We can all toast eternity

Wash away our worries and differences

I'll tap a skull while you wheeze

Cranking industry and cell phone rings

Thrumming transport trucks on distant highways

Beeps on satelite channels connect across seas

A growing thunder drowns our screams

Slip silently down darkened streets

Peer first around corners

Hail a cab to ask to go somewhere carefree

We wander within one big thudding machine

You're a whisper in a box

I'm a whine in a gear

I'm a rattle somewhere deap amongst the knobs

Wondering who is behind the wheel

What intention is on the other side of the screen

I woke one morning to find the sun shining

There were no chemicals in the air

You were there without obvious apprehension

There wasn't a connection in sight

I touched you without a glove

I felt your skin with my own exposed flesh

Your whisper carried your breath

It tickled my ear

Everyone freaked to feel so real

I looked up startled into you eyes

The machine worked into a heavier drone

I'd swear my dream was real

Yet there's nothing to see here

I'll report to work off my dream

With weary eyes and a running nose

The atomic clock clicks on