MISTER DREAM
I feel like I’m looking through a movie screen
Some fractured actor from a Hollywood scene
Keep telling myself I’m standing up
But the script says I’m sitting, reading ‘open’ for ‘shut’

Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!

My clothes don’t fit and my money’s wrong
Got a heart trace pattern says I’m dead and gone
The phone is ringing and there’s no-one there
And there’s a notice on my head saying: “Buyer, Beware!”

Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!

And it’s a strange day they gave me
I said “Alright, but you must pay me.”
And they did
I thought “Good!”
But then they owned my “shouldn’t” and “should”

Now it’s a cold, old rainy night again
My enemies are better than my fair-weather friends
Got a lucky charm keyring I found in the road
But my Flower Power meter’s still reading overload

Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!

They wrote up my name, then they crossed it out.
So, I’ll just stay here, shut inside my house,
Looking at a picture of where I ought to be -
But anybody will do, it don’t have to be me!

Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!
Do-wah do-wah do-wah!

And it’s a strange day they gave me
I said “Alright, but you must pay me.”
And they did
I thought “Good!”
But then they owned my “shouldn’t” and “should”

And it’s a strange day they gave me
I said “Alright, but you must pay me.”
And they did
I thought “Good!”
But then they owned my “shouldn’t” and “should”

Words by Peter Greatorex. Copyright (c) Pig Pen Music 1989.

Lyrics by Peter Greatorex.
Music by P.Greatorex/G.Davies/J.Willmot.
Sequenced at Silent Running Studios, Exeter, by George Davies and Jeff Willmot, 1992.
Re-recorded, mixed, produced and mastered at Wud Records Studios, 2009, by George Davies.

Performers:

Peter Greatorex – vocals
George Davies – guitars, bass, sequencing
Jeff Willmot – sequencing

Facts:

• The lyrics for Mister Dream were written during Alien Heat days and Pete and George wrote the basic riffs and arrangement in George’s bedsit in Haldon Road, Exeter, in around March of 1990.
• Alien Heat never really did anything with this song.
• The guitar parts are all played on Nicodemus.
• Pete drew inspiration for this song from the films of James Dean.
• This song is in Dm.
• The sampler is very busy in this song, although mostly by accident. The parts it plays were all originally meant for other instruments but worked so well on the S900′s basic tone program that we decided to just run with it.