Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I can't wait to wake up in my very own bed
Far away from the madness and my poundin' head
The shiver up my spine and this feelin' of dread

Well, first I finally passed out, then I woke up in pain
Tangled in the wreckage of a runaway train
Was I the last man on Earth or was I just insane?

I gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta get outta here
I gotta, gotta get outta here
I'm gettin' the message, it's totally clear
Yeah, I really gotta get outta here

Get, get, get right outta here
Get, get, get outta here, yeah

I danced at the disco where the bodies all fell
Piled up to the sky, what a sulfurous smell
Man, the ghouls on the beach, they were hotter than hell
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

I popped the old man put a hole in his eye
Spent the night with the devil, she was such a bad guy
And if he has her way, I will eternally fry
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

I gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta get outta here
I gotta, gotta get outta here
It's not complicated; yeah, it's pretty damn clear
I really gotta get outta here

Just wanna be myself again
And find my way out of this iniquitous den
I ain't havin' fun and I ain't makin' friends
I don't wanna know how this nightmare ends

I don't know why I'm here, why I've fallen from grace
I can't explain the burns or the scars on my face
Somebody please wake me up and get me outta this place
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

I said, I gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta get outta here
I gotta, gotta get outta here
They say, Is it the message?
Plead a new year, sonny

What part of dead don't you get?
Uh, excuse me?
What part of dead don't you get?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute

What part of dead don't you get?
I'm sorry, are you talking to me?
What part of dead don't you get?
Hey, I signed on for a nightmare

What part of dead don't you get?
Really, I mean, that's a little twisted, don't you think?
What part of dead don't you get?
I, don't, I, I, hey, whoa

What part of dead don't you get?
I get it, but, but I don't get it
What part of dead don't you get?
I'm sinking here, hello?
Yeah, yeah, yeah


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I Gotta Get Outta Here Lyrics as written by Cynthia Weil Barry Mann

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    My Interpretation

    Steven is hating his nightmares and want to get out of them. He tells us about what he passed through the album. He thinks he is dreaming and wants to wake up, but the choir tells him that this is no nightmare, because he is dead, so this is problably hell. Steven does not believe the choir, although he mentioned earlier "I don`t know why I'm here, why I've fallen from grace / I can't explain the burns, or the scars on my face" so he probably died and don't accept it or he died and didn't knew about it.

    When Steven died? Certainly at "A Runaway Train", in the end of the song he mentioned that his body hurt and that he is "sleepin' in the graveyard" and you can clearly hear a huge crash in the coda. Also, in this song he starts to tell his journey by the episode of the train, saying: "Well first I finally passed out, then I woke up in pain / Tangled in the wreckage of a runaway train". IMO, he thinks that the runaway train was a nightmare, since he start to complain about his nightmares by this point of his journey, but it really happened and he died at that point, even though he did not notice this or didn't accept it (If he didn't accept it, maybe it's because death is a "eternal sleep" which would mean that he is going to a "eternal nightmare")

    The last song of the album, an instrumental named "The Underture", shows the themes of songs from both the first and second Nightmare albums (A lot like the Quadrophenia instrumentals), which could serve as a credit scene song (I can imagine that) or that the nightmare continues (I hope for that).

    I think that this album is really good, not as the first one, of course, but good anyways. My biggest complain is that it takes three songs just to Steven get in the nightmares, not like the 1975 which starts in the nightmare and we have to listen / discover how Steven got stuck up there.

    ChubbyBabyon October 08, 2011   Link

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