wipe away the summer air you don t wanna see that s you in that photograph from 1973 and you don t even know me god only knows i wanna be the other side of misery gimme a plate of fluorescein i m gonna paint an ugly scene all of the things i wanna say can t get a word out anyway falling away after today nothing to lose so come what may don t wake me you got away from me somehow and all we tried to be everything is different now the mind s eye fails to see and all we know is tv god only knows i wanna be the other side of misery gimme a plate of fluorescein i m gonna paint an ugly scene all of the things i wanna say can t get a word out anyway falling away after today nothing to lose so come what may don t wake me don t wake me don t wake me inside i rise above this shallow world inside i rise above this shallow world god only knows i wanna be the other side of misery falling away after today nothing to lose so come what may don t wake me don t wake me don t wake me  god only knows i wanna be the other side of misery gimme a plate of fluorescein i m gonna paint an ugly scene