Mistaken Memories of Medieval Manhattan - Momus

I took a drug

One hundred times stonger than acid

I took a drug

One thousand times stronger than aspirin

(Fall asleep here, wake up somewhere)

I took a drug

The pain of my life disappeared

(Fall asleep here, wake up somewhere)

I took a drug

I fell asleep fuzzy, woke up clear

(Fall asleep there, wake up somewhere)

I’m waking up here

When I dream I see knights in white satin

When I dream I get mistaken memories of medieval Manhattan

Sleep is the name of the drug I took

Sleep and nothing more

Sleep is my tower of Babel

Sleep is my Utopia

Sleep is the place I feel safest in

Wrapped up in a cotton cocoon

In a topographical ocean

On the dark side of the moon

And the world is upside down

But my mind is turning on

Milk is spilling from a murdered sun

I see masturbating monks on 42nd Street

Rats carry the plague to Chinatown

Cathedrals in the well of an elevator shaft

The water towers so many onion domes

The channel 12 commercials all star Joan of Arc

On Broadway a lamb is lying down

Where have they gone, the snows of Villon?

They are falling on Manhattan as rain

Never wake me, boy

If you wake me I’ll die

If you wake me you’ll destroy this perfect world I see

When I dream

(Mistaken memories of medieval Manhattan)

When I dream