Note: Please excuse any errors and omissions. This was, by far, the hardest song to transcribe in the Who catalogue, with the vocal track sounding buried and lyrics that are apparently meant NOT to make sense.--SR

I like nightmares
I like being witless
One for the newsflash
Cool eyewitness
Nearly one, nearly two, nearly three...it's happening
Gotta be a fucking fool to blame TV, don't get trapped in
If you're lucky be the same as me
I like nightmares, yes I do

There's a simple way to die, they call it news
There's a simple way to die, they call it booze
There's an easy quiet escape, just sleep and cruise
It's justifiable rape, they say you choose

And I like nightmares
............
............
Watchng life flit west
Nearly one, nearly two, nearly three...it's happening
Can we afford strike three, don't trust the captain
He's just a boy like me
And I like nightmares...yes I do
There's a common way to weep, they say just smoke
You can cry yourself to sleep, they say just toke
There's a path that never fails, you can't get lost
Don't need roads, you're on rails, I'll pay the cost

And I like nightmares, yes I do
We were wasted, but you're only waylaid once
What we tasted was a voucher....... lunch
We robbed their bank and we took their gold
And our lies in the tank must've sounded old
But we pleaded
I said, "Your honor, we're not chumps
After all, we only did it once!"

We like nightmares
They test our fitness
.....
A taint in the midwest
Nearly one, nearly two, nearly three
It's happening
Nothing floats interest free
Don't care what it's wrapped in
Few could be abreast like me
And I like nightmares, yes I do
I like nightmares

I read your letter and the things you say
You say power chords are all that we should play
Well this is what you're gonna eat today, Virginia
'Cause if power chords are what you say you need
Look inside your body, baby, you will see
That .............seed is in you
You got it in you

But if you depend on me to make you rock and roll
Well you better look out tich, because we're gettin' old
Look inside and check out your neglected soul, Virginia
"Cause I can seem to dance out all alone on the scene
Or VIP and fight down at the music machine
But as for you, the place to look for rock and roll is in you
You got it in you
You got it in you
You know you got it in you
It's in you
You got it in you

Your letter came and today is the eighth
This is the day that Moonie earned his rate
And it makes me want to tell you stuff on letters
Dear Virginia
And if you really care then better stay awake
Take me out again, baby, and say that I'm a fake
And you can then forsake the part of me that's in you
Oh, it's in you
Oh now, you got me in you
It's all in you
Can you feel it in you?

You got it in you
You've got it in your heart
You got it in you
I'm just a tiny part of what is in you
Please remeber, darling, sweet Virginia
That everything you need's already in you!

Well I forgive completely all your lack of tact
My patience is holding out and it's a hard-earned fact
That I could easily buy your time
Dearest Virginia
You will always give me just one more chance
You'll hang around and ask me for a chance to dance
But I can't make you jump, baby, if it ain't in you
You've got it in you
You got it in your heart
You've got it in you
You know, I'm just a tiny part of what is in you
Please remember darling, sweet Virginia
Everything you need's already in you
You've got it in you
You got me in you
Hey tich...
Toe-rag...
Tosser...
You got me in you
You got it in you
Oh, you know it's in you

I stood at the door beside her
But she wouldn't let me pass
I was such a boor and I lied to her
I said I didn't really want her ass
I went away in the mud and rain
The gang became snide and laughed
I was slayed but I smiled and the pain
Began to subside at last

And when I got back to my hotel
I wondered if the thunder meant I'd landed in hell
And on the forecourt I slipped and fell
I cracked my stupid head and I heard a bell
I thought "Hey!"

Somebody saved me--it happened again
Somebody saved me--I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me--from a fate worse than heaven
'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour
I'd have wanted her forever

You would've thought that I'd have learned
Twenty years ago or more
A beautiful girl raised her mouth and yearned
But I didn't know what lips were for
I ran away in the mud and rain
(The weather here's never too bright)
She'd had an affray with her man and came
For solace and the means to fight

She finally bored with seducing me
And took up with some geezer from the Ealing scene
And it nearly killed him (like it would've killed me)
When her original man snapped his fingers and she obeyed
She obeyed!

But somebody saved me, etc.

I don't know about guardian angels
All I know about's staying alive
I can't shout about spiritual labels
When little ones die and big ones thrive
All I know is that I've been making it
And there've been times I didn't deserve to
Every show there's been more faking it
But right at the point of no return

Somebody saves me--again and again
Somebody saves me--I thank you my friend
Somebody saves me
From a fate worse than heaven
'Cause if I blew it for a single moment
I'd blow it forever
Somebody saved me

I took up the connection once
Made me feel quite aloof
I never could queue to collect my lunch
While I was pursuing the Truth
So I left my folks in the mud and rain
(It always rains in Sunnyside Road)
I lived hippy jokes getting stoned insane
Till the rain looked just like snow
But there was a soul in whom I could depend
He worked himself crazy while I laid in bed
I never leaned on a person like I leaned right then
And when I finally woke up clean
My friend was dead--stone dead

Somebody saved me--it happened again
Somebody saved me--I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me--I ain't ready for heaven
If I'd seen you for a second, I'd have wanted to see you forever
Somebody saved me