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T​-​T​-​TELL ME I'M DREAMING

from The Cagneys Play Pop​-​Punk EP by Jimi Cagney Experience

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about

This was written quite early in Cagney history but only performed live during our final show in Middlesbrough in 1987.

I’ve since heard this song arranged as a piano ballad and it works, but for this version, I took the song back to its heavier, faster origins – layers of guitars over a high bass line.

The song is about the nervousness and shyness of an adolescent male, who can't believe his luck...

It contains the lyric: “Tell me I’m dreaming and I’ll believe every word you speak, I can’t believe that we lasted longer than every Thursday for a week”

and

“All that is, is my imagination running away with you”…

There were times when I thought I was Billy Bragg and those were both of them.

lyrics

T-T-TELL ME I'M DREAMING - lyrics
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Tell me I’m dreaming and I’ll believe everything you say
Its not like me to enjoy luck like this anyway

Tell me I’m dreaming and I’ll believe every word is true
All that it is is my imagination running away with you

Help me help me try to get along
Tell me tell me tell me that I’m wrong

Sometimes I feel I’m in a haze
Sometimes the feeling lasts for days

So tell me I’m dreaming
I dreamed it all

Tell me I’m dreaming and I’ll believe every single line
Why should there be anything different about this time?

Tell me I’m dreaming and I’ll believe every word you speak
I can’t believe that we lasted longer than every Thursday for a week

Help me help me try to understand
Reassure me there’s been a slight of hand

Sometimes I feel I’m in a dream
Sometimes I feel I’m in between

So tell me I’m dreaming
I dreamed it all


I have no faith so
I have no faith in myself
Speak surely and slowly
You have to give me help

Sometimes I feel I’m in a dream
Sometimes I feel I’m in between

So tell me I’m dreaming
I dreamed it all

credits

from The Cagneys Play Pop​-​Punk EP, released June 28, 2015

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Jimi Cagney Experience Montclair, New Jersey

All words, music and instruments written, sung and played by Neal. Apologies for the singing...

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