Everybody cares, everybody understandsnYes, everybody cares about younAs a matter of fact I'm sure they donBut if you don't act just rightnThey kick you in the headnBut it isn't a real offense, you seenThey're doing it out of sympathynAnd you're the one who's bringing it all aboutnSo here I lay dreamingnLooking at the brilliant sunnRaining its guiding light upon everyonenFor a moment's rest I leaned against the banisternAfter running upstairs again and againnFrom a place you people never beennWith all of Fear City's finest following behindnWho with a greater skill and resourcefulnessnAfter putting me under a wrongful arrestnStuck me out to the desert to dry and dienSo here I lay dreamingnLooking at the brilliant sunnRaining its guiding light upon everyonenHere I lay dreamingnLooking at the brilliant sunnPushing its guiding light upon everyonenThe dream-killing doctor says to describe my dream nSome things are for no one to know nAnd for you, twelve-stepping cop, to not find out