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I like nightmares 
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I like being witless 
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One for the news flash 
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Cool eyewitness 
 

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Eighty-one, eighty-two, eighty-three, it's happening 
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Gotta be a fucking fool to blame TV 
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Don't get trapped in 
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If you're lucky, be the same as me 
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I like nightmares 
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Yes, I do 
 

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There's a simple way to die they call it news 
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There's a simple way to fly they call it booze 
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There's an easy quiet escape, just sleep and cruise 
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It's justifiable rape, they say you choose 
 
And I like nightmares 

I like feeling cheekless {?} 

Lifting up my lighter {?} 

Watching life with west {?} 
 
'81, '82, '83, it's happening  

Can we afford strike three 

Don't trust the captain 

He's just a boy like me 

And I like nightmares, yes, I do 
 
There's a common way to weep, they say just smoke 

You can cry yourself to sleep, they say just toke 

There's a path that never fails, you can't get lost 

Don't need roads, you're on rails, I'll pay the cost 
 
And I like nightmares, yes, I do 
 
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We were wasted, but you're only waylaid once 
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What we tasted was a voucher, pay their lunch 
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We robbed their banks and we took their gold 
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And our lies in the tank must've sounded old 
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But we pleaded 
 

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I said, "You're honor were not chumps, after all, we only did it once." 
 
We like nightmares 

We taste our fitness 

All kind of goulash 

A taint in the midwest 
 
'81, '82, '83, it's happening  

Nothing votes interest free 

Don't care what it's wrapped in 

You can be abreast like me 
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And I like nightmares 
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Yes, I do 
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I like nightmares