[ti:Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song] [ar:Todd Rundgren] [al:Todd] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song (2015 Remaster) - Todd Rundgren [00:08.96]Love unrequited robs me of me rest [00:16.70]Love hopeless love my ardent soul encumbers [00:23.75]Love nightmare like lies heavy of me chest [00:31.11]And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers [00:47.49]When you're lying awake with a dismal headache and [00:49.46]Repose is tabood by anxiety [00:51.43]I conceive you may use any language you choose to [00:53.17]Indulge in without impropriety; [00:55.25]For your brain is on fire the bed-clothes conspire of [00:57.47]Usual slumber to plunder you: [00:58.98]First your counter-pane goes and uncovers your toes [01:00.92]And your sheet slips demurely from under you; [01:03.00]Then the blanketing tickles you feel like mixed [01:04.86]Pickles so terribly sharp is the pricking [01:06.66]And you're hot and you're cross and you tumble and [01:08.64]Toss til there's nothing twixt you and the ticking [01:10.57]Then the bed-clothes all creep to the ground in a heap [01:12.67]And you pick them all up in a tangle; [01:14.43]Next your pillow resigns and politely declines to [01:16.69]Remain at its usual angle [01:18.32]Well you get some repose in the form of a dose [01:20.35]With hot eye-balls and head ever aching [01:22.20]But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams [01:24.10]That you'd very much better be waking; [01:26.07]For you dream you are crossing the channel and [01:27.63]Tossing about in a steamer from harwich [01:29.59]Which is something between a large bathing machine [01:31.45]And a very small second class carriage [01:33.54]And you're giving a treat [01:34.46](penny ice and cold meat) to [01:35.72]A party of friends and relations [01:37.23]Theyre a ravenous horde [01:38.06]And they all come on board [01:39.02]At sloane square and south kensington stations [01:40.87]And bound on that journey you find your attorney [01:42.71](who started this morning from devon); [01:44.22]Hes a bit undersizd and you don't feel surprisd [01:46.28]When he tells you hes only eleven [01:47.69]Well you're driving like mad with this singular lad [01:49.26](by the bye the ships now a four wheeler) [01:51.08]And you're playing round games and he calls you bad [01:52.82]Names when you tell him that ties pay the dealer; [01:54.58]But this you can't stand so you throw up your hand [01:56.58]And you find you're as cold as an icicle; [01:58.12]In your shirt and your socks [01:59.06](the black silk with gold clocks) [02:00.41]Crossing salsbury plain on a bicycle: [02:01.81]And he and the crew are on bicycles too [02:03.50]Which they've somehow or other invested in [02:05.17]And he's telling the tars all the particulars of a [02:07.16]Company he's interested in; [02:08.93]Its a scheme of devices to get at low prices all [02:10.84]Good from cough mixtures to cables [02:12.28](which tickled the sailors) by treating retailers as [02:14.30]Though they were all vegetables; [02:15.78]You get a good spadesman to plant a small tradesman [02:17.67](first take off his boots with a boot tree) [02:19.46]And his legs will take root [02:20.52]And his fingers will wshoot [02:21.41]And they'll blossom and bud like a fruit tree; [02:23.15]From the green grocer tree [02:23.93]You get grapes and green pea [02:24.92]Cauliflower pine apple and cranberries [02:26.50]While the pastry cook plant cherry brandy will grant [02:28.46]Apple puffs and three corners and banburys; [02:30.46]The shares are a penny and ever [02:31.63]So many are taken by [02:32.79]Rothschild and baring [02:34.13]And just as a few are allotted to you [02:35.90]You awake and with a shudder despairing [02:41.84]You're a regular wreck with a crick in your neck [02:43.78]And no wonder you snore for your heads on the floor [02:45.86]And you've needles and pins from your soles to your [02:47.44]Shins and your flesh is acreep for your left legs asleep [02:49.31]And youve cramp in your toes and a fly on your nose [02:51.44]And some fluff in your lung and a feverish tongue [02:53.13]And a thirst that's intense [02:54.12]And a general sense [02:55.06]That you haven't been sleeping in clover [02:58.64]But the darkness has passd [03:00.47]And its daylight at last [03:02.27]And the night has been long ditto [03:04.26]Ditto my song [03:06.69]And thank goodness they're both of them over