I took a drug One hundred times stronger 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 the 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 When I dream I see knights in white satin When I dream I get mistaken memories of medieval Manhattan And the world is upside down But my mind is turning on Milk is spilling from the 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