i shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

i lift my lids and all is born again

(i think i made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

and ambitrary blackness gallops in

i shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed

and sung me moonstruck, kissed me quite insane,

(i think i made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, Hell's fires fade

exit seraphim and Satan's men

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

i fancied you'd return the way i said

but i grew old and i forgot your name

(i think i made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead,

at least when spring comes they roar back again.

i shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

(I think i made you up inside my head.)