Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream

歌詞

I was thinking of jumping off a building last night before I went to sleep Later when I was dreaming, I guess I decided to take that leap As I was falling through the nighttime sky the ground was nowhere in sight Then I met up with this TV that was falling through the night So I tuned it in to try to catch my last episode of Cheers Instead, I saw my friends and family with eyes all full of tears I wondered: why are they crying on such a sunny sunny day? One looked at me and said it was 'cause I'd thrown my life away The screen jumped back to a time when I still alive I think it took me back to when I was just about five It quickly took me through all the events of my life It showed me all the good times and it showed me all the strife But in seeing all these old events, there was something new to see You see, I was helping people, and there were people helping me I guess I never realized that I had done any good And it gave my heart a boost just to know that I could I kept on watching just to see what else there was And I played a little with the tuning, I don't know why, just because Well the next scene on the screen was one I had never seen before It was a strange room in a strange place with a purple paisley door Of all the faces there, there were some I recognized But I could see there was something missing, I could see it in their eyes One looked at me and told me what was missing from all these souls I was supposed to meet them and instead I left a hole Well the screen to black and the TV went away And there I sat falling with nothing much left to say I realized that things were pretty good, and my life had meaning too And that jumping off this building was kind of a stupid thing to do There was however one slight flaw wih this revelation I'd seen The ground was fast approaching, and looking very mean There's nothing I could do at this point to change my destiny 'Cause you simply cannot change the laws of gravity