Slowly watching these dreams all die.
I cut my life away from you.
I remember happiness.
I see the evil in your eyes.
I see the beauty in a modern world.
Destruction.
I see shades of red blanketing your skies.
I'm still dripping still shedding these tears.
For what reason I don't know.
I still taste the bitterness, one million reasons to die Remember the times that we had.
The depths of forgotten.
Forget your past.
Look to the future.
Drowning in my sleep.
This is a fucking nightmare.
I hope the regret burns into my hands.
So I know what I've lost, I blame myself for our past.
I still remember happiness.
I'm still dripping with this blood.
I'm still shedding these tears.
I see the evil in your eyes I still dream about you.
I still die without you.
Still dreaming still dying.
Still sleeping while still standing.


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To Be Sleeping While Still Standing Lyrics as written by Josef Peters Jona Weinhofen

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    a song about love or something... i was the first again...

    Regalon June 01, 2008   Link
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    This is definitely NOT a Queen song. This is not a Smile song, either. It comes from Peter Straker's 1978 album "This One's On Me". This album was co-produced by Freddie Mercury and Roy Thomas Baker.

    DragonflyTrumpeter83on January 30, 2009   Link
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    This is definitely NOT a Queen song. This is not a Smile song, either. It comes from Peter Straker's 1978 album "This One's On Me". This album was co-produced by Freddie Mercury and Roy Thomas Baker.

    DragonflyTrumpeter83on January 30, 2009   Link
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    This is definitely NOT a Queen song. This is not a Smile song, either. It comes from Peter Straker's 1978 album "This One's On Me". This album was co-produced by Freddie Mercury and Roy Thomas Baker.

    DragonflyTrumpeter83on January 30, 2009   Link
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    This song was written by Jerry Ragavoy and was first recorded by Lorraine Ellison in 1967. It was later recorded by Peter Straker (IMHO, the far superior version) and as DragonflyTrumpeter83 said, co-produced by Freddie Mercury and Roy Thomas Baker, ALSO with Freddie Mercury participating in the backing vocals hence the Queen connection.

    supersonicwomanon August 21, 2010   Link

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