This is a winter story Where memory lies deep And the factory of dreams Prepares a night of restless sleep Bad dreams Violent dreams Somewhere in the mist of my childhood Asleep but still awake A giant shadow covered me And melted like a snowflake My mother could not hear me My lips were turning blue Till the morning sun broke my window And rose to my rescue A bad dream I'm wondering where is the doorway to yesterdays secrets? Well, let me give you the women's perspective Ever since I was a little girl They all said "don't go out alone at night It's a hungry dangerous world" It's a bad dream Bad dream I'm wondering where is the shelter for runaway angels? A backwoods man come down to the rodeo With a basket full of bibles Then he broke into a falsetto He goes "woo ooh woo ooh" It's a dream I'm wondering where is the country I promised my children?