Scenes from a Dream - Harold O'Neal

Little Nemo rubbed his eyes and got out of bed, Trying hard to piece together a broken dream. His visions lifelike and full of imagination It's strange to think they came from such a tiny head. Dragons breathing fire, but friendly. Mushrooms tall as houses. Giant Nymphs and goblins playing, Scenes from a night's dream, poor Little Nemo! Eating all kinds of food so close to bedtime They always made him have these nightmares, it seemed. Helped young Washington in the garden, Cut the cherry tree down. Now we all know that's not history, Scenes from a night's dream, poor Little Nemo! "Nemo, get out of bed!" "Don't tell me stories, I don't want to know!" "Come on you sleepy head, we're waiting to go!" Once he went to the 'Carnival of Nations' Dancing with the princess through the night. Found themselves on a moving platform Ten ton weights above them, Seeking audience with King Morpheus. Scenes from a night's dream, poor little Nemo! "Nemo, get out of bed!" "Don't tell me stories, I don't want to know!" "Come on you sleepy head, we're waiting to go!"

A bottle of white, a bottle of red Perhaps a bottle of rose instead We'll get a table near the street In our old familiar place You and I - face to face A bottle of red, a bottle of white It all depends on your appetite I'll meet you any time you want In our italian restaurant. Things are okay with me these days Got a good job, got a good office Got a new wife, got a new life And the family's fine We lost touch long ago You lost weight I did not know You could ever look so good after so much time. I remember those days hanging out at the village green Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans Drop a dime in the box play the song about new orleans Cold beer, hot lights My sweet romantic teenage nights Brenda and eddie were the popular steadies And the king and the queen of the prom Riding around with the car top down and the radio on Nobody looked any finer Or was more of a hit at the parkway diner We never knew we could want more than that out of life Surely brenda and eddie would always know how to survive. Brenda and eddy were still going steady in the summer of '75 When they decided the marriage would be at the end of july Everyone said they were crazy Brenda you know you're much too lazy Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life. But there we were wavin' brenda and eddie goodbye. They got an apartment with deep pile carpet And a couple of paintings from sears A big waterbed that they bought with the bread They had saved for a couple of years They started to fight when the money got tight And they just didn't count on the tears. They lived for a while in a very nice style But it's always the same in the end They got a divorce as a matter of course And they parted the closest of friends Then the king and the queen went back to the green But you can never go back there again. Brenda and eddie had had it already by the summer of '75 From the high to the low to the end of the show For the rest of their lives They couldn't go back to the greasers The best they could do was pick up the pieces We always knew they would both find a way to get by That's all I heard about brenda and eddie Can't tell you more than I told you already And here we are wavin' brenda and eddie goodbye. A bottle of red, a bottle of white Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight I'll meet you anytime you want In our italian restaurant.

A bottle of white, a bottle of red Perhaps a bottle of rose instead We'll get a table near the street In our old familiar place You and I - face to face A bottle of red, a bottle of white It all depends on your appetite I'll meet you any time you want In our italian restaurant. Things are okay with me these days Got a good job, got a good office Got a new wife, got a new life And the family's fine We lost touch long ago You lost weight I did not know You could ever look so good after so much time. I remember those days hanging out at the village green Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans Drop a dime in the box play the song about new orleans Cold beer, hot lights My sweet romantic teenage nights Brenda and eddie were the popular steadies And the king and the queen of the prom Riding around with the car top down and the radio on Nobody looked any finer Or was more of a hit at the parkway diner We never knew we could want more than that out of life Surely brenda and eddie would always know how to survive. Brenda and eddy were still going steady in the summer of '75 When they decided the marriage would be at the end of july Everyone said they were crazy Brenda you know you're much too lazy Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life. But there we were wavin' brenda and eddie goodbye. They got an apartment with deep pile carpet And a couple of paintings from sears A big waterbed that they bought with the bread They had saved for a couple of years They started to fight when the money got tight And they just didn't count on the tears. They lived for a while in a very nice style But it's always the same in the end They got a divorce as a matter of course And they parted the closest of friends Then the king and the queen went back to the green But you can never go back there again. Brenda and eddie had had it already by the summer of '75 From the high to the low to the end of the show For the rest of their lives They couldn't go back to the greasers The best they could do was pick up the pieces We always knew they would both find a way to get by That's all I heard about brenda and eddie Can't tell you more than I told you already And here we are wavin' brenda and eddie goodbye. A bottle of red, a bottle of white Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight I'll meet you anytime you want In our italian restaurant.

You know you're pushing your luck Sitting on the corner here Oh, whether you go up or down is unclear And you tell your friends it's just a phase Just something you're going through And you tell yourself it's all okay Just something you needed to do And you woke up from a dream (You woke up from a dream) You wish you were in all the time (You wished you were in all the time) For a moment you were free (For a moment you were free) Somewhere in your mind (Somewhere in your mind) I'll be wandering Just keep me wandering I'll be wandering Just keep me wandering You're going backwards again Running down the road here Trapped between the choices and the idea And you thought that you were on your way Thought you were going home And you tell yourself it's all okay Just some place you needed to go And you woke up from a dream (You woke up from a dream) You wish you were in all the time (You wished you were in all the time) For a moment you were free (For a moment you were free) Somewhere in your mind (Somewhere in your mind) I'll be wandering Just keep me wandering I'll be wandering Just keep me wandering There, half the time I'm there There, half the time I'm there

Well there's a stranger that I keep in my room And it poses a question of the things that I don't want to do But there's a hole at work asleep in the night And it raises my glass to all the things that I don't want to deny Sleeping in a bed I want to last for more And I've been calling in my dreams for other things And I don't even know why Something's happening to me my love Like I woke up from a dream only to find That I still hadn't woke up Oh and it's just your sweet love gone Oh it's just your sweet love gone And I've gotta find another way to go about it now I'm disillusioned by the cinema view And it plays like a song on repeat And says it's better than you But still it holds me like a grip on my mind And I can't shake the feeling to wonder Like there's something to find But it's creeping in my head That I've been feeding a lie And either way you make a call You've gotta live or you've gotta try Misdirection always leaves me a mark Like I fell in to a crowd all going different ways And pulled me apart Oh and it's just your sweet love gone Oh it's just your sweet love gone And I've gotta find a different way to go about it To keep it around now Something's happening to me my love Like I woke up from a dream only to find That I still hadn't woke up – I was asleep And all the things that weren't right Well they were still going on I can't tell you it's right When it's wrong Oh and it's just your sweet love gone Oh it's just your sweet love gone, it's gone And I've gotta find a different way to go about it To keep it around now