Released: February 1, 1976
Songwriter: Tony Banks Steve Hackett
Producer: David Hentschel
When you're asleep they may show you
Aerial views of the ground
Freudian slumber empty of sound
Over the rooftops and houses
Lost as it tries to be seen
Fields of incentive covered with green
Mesmerised children are playing
Meant to be seen but not heard
Stop me from dreaming!
Don't be absurd!
Well if we can help you we will
You're looking tired and ill
As I count backwards
Your eyes become heavier still
Sleep, won't you allow yourself fall?
Nothing can hurt you at all
With your consent
I can experiment further still
Madrigal music is playing
Voices can faintly be heard
Please leave this patient undisturbed
Sentenced to drift far away now
Nothing is quite what it seems
Sometimes entangled in your own dreams
Well, if we can help you we will
Soon as you're tired and ill
With your consent
We can experiment further still
Well, thanks to our kindness and skill
You'll have no trouble until
You catch your breath
And the nurse will present you the bill!
Aerial views of the ground
Freudian slumber empty of sound
Over the rooftops and houses
Lost as it tries to be seen
Fields of incentive covered with green
Mesmerised children are playing
Meant to be seen but not heard
Stop me from dreaming!
Don't be absurd!
Well if we can help you we will
You're looking tired and ill
As I count backwards
Your eyes become heavier still
Sleep, won't you allow yourself fall?
Nothing can hurt you at all
With your consent
I can experiment further still
Madrigal music is playing
Voices can faintly be heard
Please leave this patient undisturbed
Sentenced to drift far away now
Nothing is quite what it seems
Sometimes entangled in your own dreams
Well, if we can help you we will
Soon as you're tired and ill
With your consent
We can experiment further still
Well, thanks to our kindness and skill
You'll have no trouble until
You catch your breath
And the nurse will present you the bill!
Genesis Archive 2: 1976–1992
- Entangled
- I’d Rather Be You
- Paperlate
- It’s Gonna Get Better
- You Might Recall
- Illegal Alien
- Hearts on Fire
- Feeding the Fire
- Duke’s Travels
- Vancouver
- Dreaming While You Sleep
- It’s Yourself
- Evidence of Autumn
- The Brazilian
- Naminanu
- Submarine
- The Day the Light Went Out
- On the Shoreline
- Ripples
- I Can’t Dance
- Land of Confusion
- Invisible Touch
- Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
- Your Own Special Way
- Pigeons
- Inside and Out
- Burning Rope
- Deep in the Motherlode
- The Lady Lies
- No Reply at All
- Man on the Corner
- Open Door
- Do the Neurotic
- Mama (Work in Progress)
- A Trick of the Tail (1976)
- Genesis Archive 2: 1976–1992 (2000)
- That’s All
- Land of Confusion
- Supper’s Ready
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
- I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
- Mama
- Invisible Touch
- I Can’t Dance
- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- Carpet Crawlers
- Jesus He Knows Me
- Firth of Fifth
- In Too Deep
- Follow You Follow Me
- The Cinema Show
- In the Cage
- The Battle of Epping Forest
- Fly on a Windshield
- The Musical Box
- Ripples
- Watcher of the Skies
- No Son of Mine
- A Trick of the Tail
- Back in N.Y.C.