Everybody cares, everybody understands   Yes, everybody cares about you   As a matter of fact I'm sure they do   But if you don't act just right   They kick you in the head   But it isn't a real offense, you see   They're doing it out of sympathy   And you're the one who's bringing it all about   So here I lay dreaming   Looking at the brilliant sun   Raining its guiding light upon everyone   For a moment's rest I leaned against the banister   After running upstairs again and again   From a place you people never been   With all of Fear City's finest following behind   Who with a greater skill and resourcefulness   After putting me under a wrongful arrest   Stuck me out to the desert to dry and die   So here I lay dreaming   Looking at the brilliant sun   Raining its guiding light upon everyone   Here I lay dreaming   Looking at the brilliant sun   Pushing its guiding light upon everyone   The dream-killing doctor says to describe my dream    Some things are for no one to know    And for you, twelve-stepping cop, to not find out