Nerd Parade (The)

Wide Asleep
all night longi'm tossing-turning likea fever burning in my mindsomethings wrong'coz when i close my eyesmy heart starts beating like a drumi need some peace but every timei try to sleep i have a nightmarewhere i'm falling off a mountaininto nothing, out of nowhereand the ground below me, violently explodingleaves a message of wreckage fot decadesrotting, corrodingbut before i bottom out, i wake up suddenlyand breathe a heavy sigh of reliefthat i'm still in one pieceor better yet that i'm free, without the tyrannyof oppression, depression like a cloud over mei'm hanging on to ancient memorieslike a shadow over me tonightmorning lightcomes creeping through the blindsand i'll be forced to rise & shine Aus Songtexte Mania