"I Could Be Dreaming (BBC Session)" lyrics - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

I could be sleeping
I could be dreaming
I could have ordinary people chasing me from town to town
Mission: Impossible
They've got a spy for every blink of your eye

I'm feeling awkward
I'm feeling tongue-tied
They've got a knife for every time
You take the same train into work
A family's like a loaded gun:
You point it in the wrong direction
Someone's going to get killed

[Chorus:]
If you had such a dream
Would you get up and do the things you believe in?

Is he your husband?
Or just your boyfriend?
Is he the moron who's been beating you and keeping you inside?
I've never done this kind of thing
But if I kill him now, well, who's gonna miss him?

I went up to the school
I took a walk up Castlehill
For every step there is a local boy who wants to be a hero
Do you want to do it now?
Outside the butcher's with a knife and a bike chain
La la la, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

[Chorus:]
If you had such a dream
Would you get up and do the things you believe in

[Bridge:]
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
If you had such a dream
Would you get up and do those things
If you had such a dream
Would you get up and do those things

[Outro:]
While your head is clear
While your head is clear
While your head is clear
While your head is clear
La la la la la la la la

'...Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of his majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would have been worth any statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions which sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands, from some passing traveler. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper, learned little man, who was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary...'