Just down the street from your hotel, baby
I stay at home with my disease
And ain't this position familiar, darling
Well, all monkeys do what they see
Help me stay awake, I'm falling

Down on Virginia and La Loma
Where I got friends who'll care for me
You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted
I got an attitude of need
So help me stay awake, I'm falling

Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
I wanna get me a little oblivion baby
Try to keep myself away from me

It's 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday
And it doesn't get much worse than this
In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle
Of these lives which are completely meaningless
Help me stay awake, I'm falling

Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
I wanna get me a little oblivion baby
Try to keep myself away from myself and me
Well I got bones beneath my skin, and mister
There's a skeleton in every man's house
Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody
There's a dead man trying to get out
So please help me stay awake, I'm falling

Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
I wanna get me a little oblivion baby
Try to keep myself away from me

Perfect blue buildings, oh
Beside the green apple sea
I wanna get me a little oblivion baby
Try to keep myself away from myself and me

Oh, in the perfect blue buildings
I can't keep myself away from me
Oh, in the perfect blue buildings
Said how 'm I gonna keep myself
How 'm I gonna keep myself away from me
Keep myself away
How 'm I gonna keep myself away from me
Keep myself away
How 'm I gonna keep myself away from me