GARY BROOKER UNBROOKED4 Dead Man's Dream ('acoustic' version)

song written by Brooker / Reid
All rights reserved
GARY BROOKER, vocals & piano
sound processing, remixing, demuxing & editing by ANNIS 2024
lyrics:
As I lay down dying, a floor for my bed
And a bundle of newspaper under my head
I dreamed a dream, as strange as could be
Concerning myself, and somebody like me
We were in some city, the stranger and me
The houses were open, and the streets empty
The windows were bare, and the pavements dirty
I asked where I was; my companion ignored me
We entered a graveyard and searched for a tombstone
The graves were disturbed, and the coffins wide open
And the coprses were rotten, yet each one was living
Their eyes were alive with maggots crawling
I cried out in fear, but my voice had left me
My legs were deformed, yet I moved quite freely
My head was on fire, yet my hands were icy
And everywhere light, yet darkness engulfed me
I managed to scream and woke from my slumber
I thought of my dream and lay there and wondered
Where had I been? What could it mean?
It was dark in the deathroom as I slithered under
[Gary Brooker / Keith Reid 1970]

[@davidadams2478]

I loved Gary Brooker..and the Home album..Still they'll be more!

[@alanmilne1070]

Magic. A few years ago Procol Harum came to Cape Town to perform and Gary had fall in his hotel room - cracked his skull - so I never had the opportunikty to see the band. So frustrating.