Violent Dreams every night/lately I've been waking out of urgency

something I said, something I did/is bringing on this violent emergency

one black day in ghostly white/it's just another sleepless night

and one more day, I'm always taking the dive/ All it takes is all I can give

all my waking hours just to see you live through this sleepless night

Violent Dreams every night/patiently waiting in the waiting room

hospital white/ hospital lights

burning an unbearable fluorescent gloom

still with both my eyes shut tight/it's just another sleepless night

one more day, I'm always taking the dive/ All it takes is all I can give

All my waking hours just to see you live

You behind closed eyes, behind closed doors/ "First thing tomorrow" someone said

she's hanging by a needle and a thread

Violent Dreams every night/ turning empty pages of old magazines

turning instead of turning in bed/turning off the static on the T.V. screen

in the vending machine light/ it's just another sleepless night

one more day I'm always taking the dive/ and all it takes is all I can give

all my waking hours just to see you live