Crying in My Sleep - Jimmy Webb

I took a walk around the yard

I dug the flowers 'til it got too hard

Smoked my first pack of cigarettes today

Then I, I went down

Down to Lucy’s old cafe

I put a half a case away

Took a sleeping pill and I tried to watch TV

But you know baby, the leading lady

Looked too much like you for the likes of me

And I woke up crying in my sleep

I was talking to your pillow

And I reached out to touch your hand

And knocked the phone off the night stand

And the operator said

«May I help you please?»

And I said «No thanks baby, tonight there ain’t no help for me

See, I just had a bad dream.»

That’s all that’s wrong with me

You see I just had a bad dream

Went out to loosen up the car

Somehow I wound up at the Rainbow Bar

I had a scotch and soda on the run

But I didn’t get too far

And I, I ran down

To some friends I used to know

I dragged them out to see the show

I ran myself a bath and I tried to read your book

But you know baby, this time it just didn’t seem

Worth all the time it took

And I woke up crying in my sleep

I was talking to your pillow

And I reached out to touch your hand

And knocked the phone off the night stand

The operator said «May I help you please?»

And I said «No thanks baby, tonight there ain’t no help for me

See, I just had a bad dream.»

I woke up cryin'

Cryin' and try’na find me, babe

Cryin' and try’na find me, babe

Cryin' and try’na find me, babe

Cryin' and try’na find me, babe

Cryin' and try’na find me, babe