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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
Written by Pete Townshend