Larry Norman - Nightmare #71 lyrics

Last night i had that same old dream
It rocked me in my sleep
And left me the impression that
The sandman plays for keeps
I dreamed i was in concert in
The middle of the clouds
John wayne and billy graham were giving
Breath mints to the crowds
I fell through a hole in heaven
I left the stage for good
And when i landed on the earth
I was back in hollywood

The california earthquake it tore
The land in half
While san andreas cleared her throat
I heard tsunami laugh
The ground began to tremble the
Land began to sway
And people in the other states they
Were glad they'd moved away
But suddenly california just floated
In the breeze
While every state that wasn't sank
Down into the seas

And soon i saw atlantis rumble and rise high
And the great egg of euphrates came
Down out of the sky
And out stepped shirley temple with
Guy kippee who was dead
And that communist bill robinson whom
Shirley called black red
They have a marionette of harpo marx they
Said it was an inside joke
But when i honked his horn he came alive
And these were the words he spoke

With the continents adrift and the
Sun about to shift
Will the ice caps drown us
All or will we burn
We've polluted what we own will we
Reap what we have sown?
Are we headed for the end or can we turn?
We've paved the forest killed the streams
Burned the bridges to our dreams
The earth is bursting at the seams
And in pain of childbirth screams
As it gives life to what seems
To either be an age that gleams

Or simply lays there dying
If this goes on will life survive how can it
Out of the grave oh who will save our planet?
I said i'm pleased to meet you i
Always thought you were a scream
He said have you ever thought of
Having helen keller in your dreams
I said errol flynn dropped by but
He tried to steal my girl
The she ran off with ronald colman
Said something about a new world

Now i'm stuck with my own cooking
Hey i'm lonely can't you see
Well he grabbed my leg and said
Exactly eighty nine words to me
Count them let the proud but dying
Nation kiss the last generation
It's the year of the pill, age of the gland
We have landed on the moon but
We'll clutter that up soon
Our sense of freedom's gotten out of hand

We kill our children swap our wives
We've learned to greet a man with knives
We swallow pills in fours and five
S our cities look like crumbling hives
Man does not live he just survives
We sleep till he arrives

Love is a corpse we sit and watch it harden
We left it oh so long ago the garden
The strings snapped briskly then went
Slack the marionette lay dead
While hoover played with the motorcade
The body slumped and bled
The man who held the camera
Disappeared into the crowd
I said the hope of youth, fictitious truth
Lays covered in a shroud
Then up walked elmo lincoln and he
Said i beg you pardon
But we left it oh so long ago, the garden