psychobabble rap 2 me

Tell you 'bout a dream that I have every night

[no, just this one time...]

 

Tell you 'bout a dream that I have every night

[actually. it was after I hit snooze today at 0930...]

 

It ain't Kodachrome and it isn't black and white

[pretty sure it was in color, like my dreams usually are...]

 

Take me for a fool if you feel that's right

[certainly was lost in it, no idea where I was...]

 

Well, I'm never on my own, but there's nobody in sight

[um, that last part is correct, but not the first...] 

 

I don't know why I'm scared of the lightning

[who said anything about lightning?]

Trying to reach me

[my phone number is still the same, just sayin'...]

I can't turn to the left or the right

[got plenty of room for that in this king-sized bed...]

I'm too scared to run and I'm too weak to fight

[I admit, there was a scary moment in the dream...] 

 

But I don't care, it's all psychobabble rap to me
Psychobabble
[maybe I should just describe it, right?]

 

Tell you 'bout a dream that I have every night

[So, I look around and realize that I'm in a big hotel suite...]

It's in Dolby stereo, but I never hear it right

[even though there's no one there, it feels familiar...]

Take me for a fool, well, that's all right

[like I'm there with cuzn Michelle and her family...]

Well, I see the way to go, but there isn't any light

[there's plenty of light, but none of them...]

I don't know why I'm scared of the lightning

[so I go in search and wind up in this huge hallway...]

Trying to reach me

[where, of course, I got turned around...]

Help me to find what I don't wanna know

[ending up on a passenger ferry taking a sunset cruise on the river...]

You're taking me there, but I don't wanna go

[so I go along, ending up next to this big friendly guy...]

I don't care, it's all psychobabble rap to me

[which worked out well a few minutes later...]

Psychobabble, all psychobabble

[on the riverbank, atop a castle ruin, were three drunks wrestling...]

Psychobabble, all psychobabble

[and one fell and looked like he might be dead...]

I don't care, it's all psychobabble rap to me
[so I closed my eyes and cuddled next to the friendly guy...]

 

You're readin' my mind, you won't look in my eyes

[and when i opened my eyes, the ferry had reversed back toward the hotel...]

You say I do things that I don't realize

[the guy had left so I took a walk...]

But I don't care, it's all psychobabble rap to me

[another guy came up to me and started talking about a Thomas Edison book...]

Psychobabble, all psychobabble

[but then two boys with hot chocolate came by, said it was just a dollar...]

Psychobabble, all psychobabble

[sure enough, they were right, and I bought a cup with the $5 coin I got at the hotel...]

You're lighting a scene that's faded to black

[I even found six quarters on the deck as I waited for my hot chocolate...]

I threw it away 'cause I don't want it back

[then I walked off, sipping the hot chocolate as the ferry sailed under a night sky...]

But I don't care, it's all psychobabble rap 

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My thanks to the Alan Parsons Project for use of their lyrics.

My thanks to my mental jukebox for reminding me of this song as I waited for coffee.

Maybe I'll be able to continue this dream some other  day...

but not today.