The Nightmare

"Is this the Apocalypse?" Now he enquires! The Matron is busy connecting the wires She smiles in the way that so often they do When they know that a treatment is long overdue She's never been famous for hiding her thoughts Like everyone out there, she reads the reports "They say we're expecting a meteorite And they're panicking out in the City tonight It's a nightmare! A nightmare! "From all that they say, it's a dangerous beast Flying in low, coming out of the east It seems it defies all applicable laws And who knows the damage it's likely to cause? But now, for the moment you'll need to relax Imagine avoiding your inheritance tax Suspend animation when the treatment resumes Dream, as the darkness relentlessly looms It's the nightmare The nightmare "It's easy to feel that you're out on your own When you're sleepwalking into a parallel zone And biting down hard on that suicide pill You don't seem to know that you're seriously ill! We're all here and with you to carry the weight We're telling you everything is going to be great And that's all that anyone ever can say Get used to it, son; it's not going away! It is the nightmare Oh, the nightmare" "So what happens now?" The patient persists She fixes his fetters and shackles his wrists And wipes off the sweat of his brow on her sleeve "What's happening now, boy? We've got to believe! Believe at all costs that we're getting it right 'Cos it's dark in the City, and they're needing the light!" She leans over, offers one innocent kiss "Maybe someday we'll be laughing at this! It's a nightmare Just a nightmare" "It's too close to call!" all the bulletins shriek Holding their heads in their hands, so to speak Many indeed want this intruder to land It's strange, but try never to misunderstand For some it's worth trying defying the odds To fly in the face of those devious Gods And so let the slow-motion drama unfold The sunlight be lost to the shivering cold Of the nightmare The nightmare And so let the slow-motion drama unfold The sunlight be lost to the shivering cold Of the nightmare The nightmare The nightmare The nightmare