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Artist: Keane
Track: A Bad Dream

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Why do I have to fly
Over every town up and down the line?
I'll die in the clouds above
And you that I defend, I do not love

I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired to be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind

Where will I meet my fate?
Baby I'm a man, I was born to hate
And when will I meet my end?
In a better time you could be my friend

I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired to be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Wouldn't mind it
If you were by my side
But you're long gone
Yeah you're long gone now
Yeah

Where do we go?
I don't even know
My strange old face
And I'm thinking about those days
And I'm thinking about those days

I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired to be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Wouldn't mind it
If you were by my side
But you're long gone
Yeah you're long gone now
Yeah
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Q:Who produced “A Bad Dream” by Keane?
“A Bad Dream” by Keane was produced by Andy Green & Keane.
Q:Who wrote “A Bad Dream” by Keane?
“A Bad Dream” by Keane was written by Tim Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin & Richard Hughes.
Q:When did Keane release A Bad Dream?
Keane released A Bad Dream on January 22, 2007.
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The most popular song on A Bad Dream by Keane is “A Bad Dream” with a total of 19K page views.
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