Don't Mess With Doctor Dream

I think it's about drugs and the effects it has on the human body.

Don't mess with doctor dream Don't mess with doctor dream Come lay your head down on the stone So cool and white and welcome home Oh lose your troubles, ease your pain Soothe your soul in golden rain

(snorting a drug or otherwise injecting a white substance into your system, all your troubles go away while your brain is floating high on the drug.)

Blue Marble Seas I will make you feel so good Roll over me Blue marble dreams Like you always knew you would Roll over me

(the drug takes effect, skewing perception and making the user feel good.)

Don't mess with doctor dream Don't mess with doctor dream He's not one for sympathy Don't mess with doctor dream Don't mess with doctor dream He will bring you to your knees

(A warning: don't take drugs, because the long term effects can bring any person to their knees, and the drug itself doesn't care or offer sympathy to the one addicted to it.)

In the hours before the dawn You curse the day that you were born Oh those demons scream in ecstasy And you crawl around in agony Doctor jeers and fades away Yeah this is the price that you must pay

(Morning comes, the drug works its way out of your system. You come down from your high, you suffer the after effects as the happy effects fade out. Here's the price for those hours of joy.)

The song is about heroin in particular. It was written after the band visited Ireland on tour and were approached by children of about 8 or 9 years old who tried to sell them heroin. They were shocked at the ages of the children, as well as the fact that it was something as destructive as heroin that the children were using.

This is when they decided not to bother with a melodies* anymore and thought "Just put the word "Doctor" in the title and people might buy it, thinking it's Doctor Doctor"

I still bought the 12" as i did with "Lay Your Hands On Me" which was also not very good.

• King For A Day was the exception from that album. If they had led with that as the first single, they woulda sold more albums. Sadly, after DMWDD and LYH people assumed they'd ran out of tunes.

You dont need to go to Ireland to see kids selling drugs. Where are they from? Posh Town in Poshshire?

The first time I heard this song(literally five minutes ago lol). I had just come in from snow blowing, pulled my ear plugs out and here is what my brain heard at first…”Don’t mess with Dexedrine”. I said to myself, “wtf?” But the lyric was repeated and this time I heard “Don’t mess with Dr. Dream”. I thing either work nicely. Lol.