dreamer/SCREAMER

Simon Brown

First week of the ongoing project "good composer/dead composer"--a collaboration between composer Simon Brown and filmmaker Josh Deane. 52 music videos--one a week--until October of next year. LYRICS i'm a dreamer i'm a screamer i'm a true non-believer, i howl at the world when i'm haggard and fevered, i take what is offered and i pull every lever till i settle down and i'm done, i'm a painter of sorrows i'm a five-o-clock drinker, can't wait for tomorrow, i'm an off-the-wall thinker, and i don't have a clue to what game i am into, but i'm gonna play till i've won i used to be able to think through a fable but now i find laurels and mistake the morals for things i'm supposed to have done. O, O, why's it so hard to live? it's getting unbearable storms so unfareable i know you don't care, but i'd still like to know how much more i'm expected to give. i'm an island that's sinking with a lighthouse that's blinking an sos to anyone, i'm a criminal mind who has lost his design and forgets why he's still on the run; as soon as i wake i have thoughts i can't shake they break me apart until my body aches and they haunt me at night and they keep me awake till the first little light from the sun.