Can't sleep
Trying hard to find a rhyme
Can't work
I am tired all the time
Can't eat
Now my appetite has gone
Can't think
When it started to go wrong
Can't move
I've no energy to fight
Can't see
Any end to this in sight
Last week
I could do all of those things
But now
I am just the man who sings
I've searched around for years and years
I drank in bars, destroyed careers
Sold on a need to be famous
I've seen the good in men survive
Only to fail when I arrive
Convincing them I am blamesless
I was the man with future sight
I would change fortunes overnight
Knowing for me it was painless
Can't sleep
Trying hard to find a rhyme
Can't work
I am tired all the time
Can't eat
Now my appetite has gone
Can't think
When it started to go wrong
Can't move
I've no energy to fight
Can't see
Any end to this in sight
Last week
I could do all of those things
But now
I am just the man who sings
One day in April, ten fifteen,
I awoke screaming from a dream
Something that touched me was burning
A diamond bit fell from my eye
Then something strange began to cry
Your will can stop this world turning
Since then I've fought more than I should
Against the will that I withstood
Hoping I could be its master
But now the dream is all I see
There is no hope of breaking free
Once on the way from disaster.
Can't move
I've no energy to fight
Can't see
Any end to this in sight
Last week
I could do all of those things
But now
I am just the man who sings