The Dreamer Is Still Asleep - Coil

Hush, may I ask you all for silence?

The dreamer is still asleep

May the goddess keep us from single visions

And beauty sleep

The dreamer is still asleep

The dreamer is still asleep

He’s inventing landscapes in their magnetic fields

Working out a means of escape, he says

We’ll cut across the crop circles

The seer says no

There’s not much time left for these escape attempts

Look at it this way

In ten years' time

Who’ll even remember?

Who’ll care?

Who’ll even remember?

Who’ll care?

One dies like that, deep within it

Almost inside it

It’s there for a reason

I’ll cut out my old address

Attack the little book

To tear and cut the paper

To care and touch the paper

The beginning is also the end

Time defines it, time unwinds it

It will end

Like close friendships

Nothing could be further

We forget the space between people and places

Is empty

We forget, and don’t notice the loss

And don’t notice the loss (repeated)

Crossing into venerable degenerations

Such radiant pollution

The god with the silver hand surveys this vast,

Surveys these vast contaminations

In the heart of your heart

Your eye remains

Is the hurt you?

Is the blister you call loveless?

Your whole life is a cold slow shock

Your whole life is a cold slow shock

Take time

Take a little time

To track the shabby shadow down

The pissy mists of history

Down the pissy mists of history

Take a little time

To track the shabby shadows down

The pissy mists of history

The dreamer is still dreaming

The dreamer is still dreaming

Hush;

may I ask you all for silence?

The dreamer is still asleep

May I ask you all for silence?

The dreamer is still dreaming (repeated)

The dreamer is still asleep