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Artist: Alice Cooper
Canonical path: /alice-cooper/the-nightmare-returns
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The Nightmare Returns
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The Nightmare Returns
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I'm a little tired and feeling hazy
I just need to rest my eyes
But I won't go to sleep because it's crazy
What happens to me in the night
Coz when I go to deep into my slumber
Ugly faces, awful places I don't want to go, no
A runaway train
All aboard
Watch your step, people
Last call for the Nightmare Express
I found myself slipping away
Just this side of dead
I woke up in a box car
I wasn't in my bed
I found my leg chained to a spike
That ran down through the floor
Attached to thirteen angry men
All rotten to the core
But I'm innocent I cried right out
I'm in someone else's dream
They looked around and laughed out loud
Said: Brother, so are we
Yeah, brother, so are we
But I'm a big celebrity
Known all round the land
Well, buddy, you ain't no one here
Man, you ain't in demand
Speeding t'wards a flaming wall
Like a screaming sonic boom
I really gotta wake up now
Or I may meet my doom oh lord
I may meet my doom
So all that I remember
Is how much my body hurt
Now I'm sleeping in the graveyard
On the wrong side of the dirt
Yeah, I'm on the wrong side of the dirt
Wrong side of the dirt, don't you know?
I'm on the wrong side of the dirt
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