Clinging to a Bad Dream is the fifth track on +-. It was debuted live in 2013 at Store Vega in Copenhagen, Denmark, as part of a mashup with The Zookeeper’s Boy and The Seething Rain Weeps For You.
[Verse 1]
A swivelling chair
I never rode a motor bike
And I don’t want to
It’s not the kind of thing I like
[Pre-Chorus] (x2)
I know, I know, I know
It’s difficult, difficult, different
I know, I know
[Chorus]
Amber heart
That comes apart
It’s always trial, trial
When you no longer believe in
This stage life has set for you
[Instrumental]
[Verse 2]
I don’t want this
Should have let it go
I don’t want this
Should have let it go
In its devotion
In its unchosen specialness
Unlike my old one
Unlike in letting me possess
[Pre-Chorus]
I know, I know, I know
It’s difficult, difficult, different
I know, I know
[Chorus]
Amber heart
That comes apart
It’s always trial, trial
When you no longer believe in
This stage life has set for you
In the end
My dearest friends
All there is left, I know, I know
When we’re finished climbing mountains
Is climbing back down again
[Bridge]
I was held to be for no one
No one lasting
[Instrumental]
[Outro]
I think I thought
Maybe you can change me
I know you and I
Are clinging to a bad dream
And in between
The shades on your screen
They come and go
Sometimes they never show
Clinging to a Bad Dream was written by Johan Wohlert & Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen & Bo Rune Madsen & Jonas Bjerre.
Clinging to a Bad Dream was produced by Bo Rune Madsen & Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen & Johan Wohlert & Jonas Bjerre & Michael Beinhorn.
Mew released Clinging to a Bad Dream on Mon Apr 27 2015.