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The devil's in the dreaming
He tells you I'm not sleeping in my hotel room alone
With nothing to believe in
You dive into the traffic rising up
And it's so quiet
You're surprised
And then you wake
For all the things you're losing
You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find
crawling round my brain
I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
"Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days."
The devil's in the dreaming
You see yourself descending from a building to the ground
You watch the sky receding
You spin to see the traffic rising up
And it's so quiet
You're surprised
And then you wake
For all the things I'm losing
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change
But I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find
crawling round my brain
I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
"Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days."
In one of these dreams, you forgive me
It makes me think of the bad decisions that keep you at home
How could anyone else have changed?
All these wrong conclusions that leave you alone
How could everyone rearrange?
How could everyone else have changed?
What I see I believe
For all the things I'm losing
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change
Well, I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find
crawling around my brain
I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
"Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days."
But I can't sleep at night
He tells you I'm not sleeping in my hotel room alone
With nothing to believe in
You dive into the traffic rising up
And it's so quiet
You're surprised
And then you wake
For all the things you're losing
You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find
crawling round my brain
I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
"Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days."
The devil's in the dreaming
You see yourself descending from a building to the ground
You watch the sky receding
You spin to see the traffic rising up
And it's so quiet
You're surprised
And then you wake
For all the things I'm losing
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change
But I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find
crawling round my brain
I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
"Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days."
In one of these dreams, you forgive me
It makes me think of the bad decisions that keep you at home
How could anyone else have changed?
All these wrong conclusions that leave you alone
How could everyone rearrange?
How could everyone else have changed?
What I see I believe
For all the things I'm losing
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change
Well, I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find
crawling around my brain
I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
"Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days."
But I can't sleep at night
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This is a really sad song, but I'd have to say that it is really, really good. This whole CD is great. I feel his pain through his lyrics.
It could also be the fact that he's so lonely and messed up from her, that he wants to eventually be able to tell her that he's okay, and that he's over it, but he can't just yet.
For all the things you're losing
You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find
crawling round my brain
(Then the second time, he changes it to himself that need to make the change)
this brings up another theme that often appears in adam's writing.
he is saying the for all the things he's lost in his life, such as his relationships, due to his fame/career, he should make a change, but instead he's going to continue to live the rockstar life. and his art ends up being the things that crawl around his brain. the thoughts that are left after the decisions are made.
and for elizabeth; he is saying for all the stress that my life puts on you, you should make a change, because he's is going down to hollywood to live the life and make music
and i missed out the 'a' in 'he was a girl'.
fudge.
From what I read earlier today, I've got a different meaning from it.
Apparently Adam copped a lot about being 'whiny' and stuff in his songs, when he was really depressed and suffering from something medical.
For me, this is about how he wishes he was girl so people would believe him when he says he's miserable - people don't really associate guys with being sad all the time (hey, not my view).
People kept telling him nothing was wrong and to cheer up, life isn't that bad, etc. and he wished there wasn't anything wrong, but there was.
It hits me most in the opening lines and the chorus. I may be wrong (most likely am), but that's just what hits me personally.
There might only be a tenuous connection between the stuff about Hollywood, the stuff about jumping off buildings and the stuff about Elisabeth. Sometimes Adam writes songs about more than one thing.
I love the part at the end where he lets go, loses all the poetry and just yells 'I can't sleep at night'