Kevin Ayers - It Begins With a Blessing/Once I Awakened/But It Ends With a Curse lyrics

It begins with a blessing But it ends with a curse Making life easy But making it worse My mask is my master The trumpeter weeps But his voice is so weak As he speaks from his sleep Saying Why why why are we sleeping? Now people are watching People who stare Waiting for something That's already there Tomorrow I'll find it The trumpeter screams Then remembers that he's hungry And he drowns in his dreams Singing Why why why are we sleeping? My head is a night club With gla**es and wine But the customers dancing They're just marking time You can turn to your partner and say How does it seem? And she will look at you and say Get out of my dream ... Oh why why why are we sleeping? Once I awakened my eyes filled with tears I had been sleeping for thousands of years Dreaming a life full of problems and sadness Endlessly turning in spirals of madness Where the wind blows That's where it all goes It follows the song Like its dream ... singing ... So it begins with a blessing But it ends with a curse Making life easy But making it worse Just turn to your partner and say How does it seem? He'll look at you and say Get out of my dream Why why why are we sleeping?