I'm Gonna Go To Bed And When I Wake Up I'm Gonna Be Someone Else
'm gonna go to bed and when I wake up I'm gonna be someone else This is my own personal way of dealing with it all, writing songs about things that could never exist anywhere but inside my head on a night like this when the pubs are shut and the clubs are overrun with puddles of vomit and puddles of blood and you’re gasping for air but you can’t get enough through the night bus window it’s like sitting in your house but someone’s stolen the telly and thrown up on the couch
I'm gonna go to bed and when I wake up I’m gonna be someone else, I'm gonna go to bed and when I wake up I’m gonna be someone else, I’m gonna go to bed tonight and when I wake up it’s gonna be like being sick after the worst hangover ever, you know that sense of relief when the sick hits the pan and you finally realise you can function again? It’s gonna be like that but times ten, it’s gonna be like the total resurrection of Ben, it’s gonna be like when they tried to reinstate Dirty Den into East Enders, but without all the pirate masturbation capers it’s gonna go fine
It’s like getting home from school and for the first time realising no-one tried to bully you, and you realise there’s more to life than football and that’s just as well. And you get into a fight with both your parents and you honestly don’t know what you’re gonna do, so you walk around the streets for six maybe seven hours and when you get back you find they’ve both waited up and they’ve both forgiven you
And looking back you weren’t as ugly as you really thought you would be and all those wasted opportunities they just made you who you are and looking abck you weren’t as pitiful as all that drunken literature you wrote they were the words of someone far worse off than you and looking back you weren’t as useless as all that you once watched the whole of Philadelphia and it didn’t make you cry and looking back you weren’t as useless in the sack as you gave yourself credit for
I'm gonna go to bed and when I wake up I’m gonna be someone else, I'm gonna go to bed and when I wake up I’m gonna be someone else, I’m gonna go to bed tonight and when I wake up it’s gonna be like getting out of a fight in a pub, you know the sort of fight that you’re honestly not involved in but you know it’s only a matter of time before you’re involved in and then suddenly you’re outside and it’s when that that song that sounds like Godspeed you back emperor kicks in in 28 weeks later and you’re Robert Carlyle and you’re looking at the world and you’re starting to smile ‘cause whilst your wife and kids they might all be dead you know it’s never too late to start a new life instead
It’s like getting home from school and for the first time realising no-one tried to bully you, and you realise there’s more to life than football and that’s just as well. And you get into a fight with both your parents and you honestly don’t know what you’re gonna do, so you walk around the streets for six maybe seven hours and when you get back you find they’ve both waited up and they’ve both forgiven you
And looking back you weren’t as ugly as you really thought you would be and all those wasted opportunities they just made you who you are and looking back you weren’t as pitiful as all that drunken literature you wrote they were the words of someone far worse off than you and looking back you weren’t as useless as all that you once watched the whole of Philadelphia and it didn’t make you cry and looking back you weren’t as useless in the sack as you gave yourself credit for