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Drake's Nightmare

(February 1981)

#846 on list of all songs
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#1 on the Rufstuf Drake's nightmare album at

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We come to Baghdad by the bay, by plane, by womb, by thumb.
Some hoped for utopia, some just followed the sun.
Some came looking for the big E Some traveled here for the highs
Some came out to get a good job Some came out for the guys
Seeing the sights on a third world tour a wino grabbed my hand
You wanna know a secret about dear old San Fran

You fucking asshole this is Drake's name? Nightmare.
His boat's out there rocking and it's mooring.
He can't wake up. He's tossing and turning.
Wake up! Out of Drake's nightmare.
Wake up! Out of Drake's nightmare.

We live beneath cocked megatons. Don't be afraid, take a look.
The historians of nightmares are gonna think we're crazy. They'll call us kooks.
Just like all those other idiots in the past, it's gonna be you.

Can you imagine what future archaeologists are gonna say going through these ruins?
We won't have. Have any apologists? We'll be laughed at in our tombs.
We live in a goddamn parking lot. We live in a goddamn machine.
Are slaves to inanimate dictators and eat our own shit like dogs and pigs.
Horror movies aren't about outside forces. They're about us.
As I look around, I groan and think, poor Sir Francis. The bum went on.

You fucking asshole, this is Drake's nightmare,
like a bad acid trip he left out of his diary.
Wake up. It don't have to be this way.
Wake up. Out of Drake's nightmare.

Citizens of Nova Albion. Living beneath such a curse,
it'd take a miracle to cure it.
Looks like it's getting worse.
The wino squeezed my arm and continued with his verse.

You pay a staggering sum for protection
to hysterical psychopaths who meet in the East.
You give them the power of Dr. Frankenstein
and they pick you off the trees.

The streets are filled with the wounded.
They are not fit for breath.
There are nightmares everywhere.
And we're standing in it.
Be sure to see the Golden Gate Bridge.
It's targeted for a short.
Now get back on your bus before it leaves.
And take a good look

at Drake's Nightmare.

Drake's Nightmare.

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