Tiana’s Bad Dream - Randy Newman

I had a bad dream Woke up and prayed it was not so Stare at a cracked screen Turns out the dream it was only a part of the things that I rival High as a kite Creeping with fright I'm breaking in two And the only thing that can fix me is dreaming with you You, you settle my mind And you steady the wheels that I've turned all my life I had a vision Things I had done that came back to haunt Me in my fiction Planting the seed in my head 'til I Captured the right words to tell you High as a kite Creeping with fright I'm breaking in two And the only thing that can fix me Is dreaming with you You, you settle my mind And you steady the wheels that I've turned all my life I'm breaking in two And the only thing that can fix me Is dreaming with you You, you settle my mind And you steady the wheels that I've turned all my life

I look around as I struggle to remember My stolen years peppered with varnished pleasure I couldn't see clearly, my pain manufactured for me Caught in an age of 1984 My own thoughts, they evade me Not mine anymore And I am deluded and graceful in my misery And so I close my eyes and fantasize of another time When I didn't know love could be used like a knife And I close my eyes and fantasize of a time in my life When I didn't know you But I never knew you, anyway You're just a bad dream It took some time, but I'm awake And you didn't break me 'Cause I never knew you, anyway You're just a bad dream that I woke from I never knew you, anyway You're just a bad dream I am a daughter and so is she too (so is she) But that old tired argument's wasted on you Why must we ask for what's taken for granted for him? (For him) And I'll ask no questions, and you'll tell no lies I'll be gone in the morning When I wake up, wise, I got used to drowning I hope I still know how to swim And so I close my eyes and fantasize of another time When I didn't know love could be used like a knife And I close my eyes and fantasize of a time in my life When I didn't know you But I never knew, anyway You're just a bad dream It took some time, but I'm awake And you didn't break me 'Cause I never knew you, anyway You're just a bad dream that I woke from I never knew you, anyway You're just a bad dream And I never knew you, anyway You're just a bad dream that I woke from I never knew you, anyway You're just a bad dream You're just a bad dream You're just a bad dream You're just a bad dream You're just a -

You gave a warning But you never give the Signals that I'm wanting You know that I crave all your attention It's danger mmm I don't know if this is it, is this it to you? When you say you do, you don't Leaving me no clue If yes is no and no is yes Tell me what you want How am I meant to know What's going on? You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You never give the feelings that I want You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want Knife's edge Living on both sides I don't know what's best I need you to tell me Don't know what's next Be honest, mmm Oh, yeah I don't know if this is it, is this it to you? When you say you do, you don't Leaving me no clue If yes is no and no is yes Tell me what you want How am I meant to know what's going on? You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You never give the feelings that I want You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want I don't know if this is it, is this it to you? When you say you do, you don't Leaving me no clue If yes is no and no is yes Tell me what you want How am I meant to know what's going on? You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You never give the feelings that I want (You, yeah) You never give the feelings that I want

I saw you on Sunday, Monday Hanging with your man again You came back on a Tuesday With that cold a' look ashamed Oh I could love you better Better than you once knew If you're cheating, cheat on yeah 'Cause cheating's just a thing you do It's just a thing you do I saw you on Friday, Saturday Tearing up another heart You came home a' crying Why you take it all so hard? You know I love you better Better than you once knew If you're cheating, cheat on, yeah But I would never cheat on you Yeah, I could love you, better Better than you once knew But if you're cheating, cheat on, yeah 'Cause cheating's just the thing you do It's just a thing you do Ohhh I've been told you baby You done some things so bad to me ahh I know You are the one who's creeping You are the one who's cheating But if you're heart is beating Bring it on, bring it to me. You are the one who's creeping You are the one who's cheating But if you're heart is beating Bring it on, bring it to me. I could love you, better Better than you once knew If you're cheating, cheat on But I would never cheat on you, no. I could love you, better Better than you once knew If you're cheating, cheat on 'Cause cheating's just a thing you do.

My tribute It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me Here's my tribute 15, I had known to be So confused, broken easily Now I could not be off the memory but you're next to me 18, you made me see You lit the lights I've been dampening Now I could not be off the memory but you're next to me My passion was abused, my words were never used But now I hope that you can see That it's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me, look how I grew Here's my tribute 23, now I'm taken in This vicious whirl I was captured in Now I could not be off the memory but you're next to me My passion was abused, my words were never used But now I hope that you can see That it's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me, look how I grew It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me, look how I grew Here's my tribute It's my tribute! My tribute! Oh no! This life I've been brought Life I've been leading It's my life, it's my tribute This life I've been brought Life I've been leading It's my life, it's my tribute And it's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me, look how I grew It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me, look how I grew Here's my tribute