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"Dreaming While You Sleep" is a song by the rock band Genesis. It is the sixth track on their album We Can't Dance, their last single with Phil Collins.
The lyrics of the song were written by bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford. They are about someone who was driving on a rainy night and was falling asleep, and ran over a woman that was crossing the street because he couldn't see her. The driver didn't stop to see what he had done, and after the notice was heard on the radio and appeared on TV, the thought of what he had done began haunting him.
"Dreaming While You Sleep" was performed live during the 1992 "The Way We Walk" tour. A live version of the song can be found on the second disc of the boxed set Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992. The performance was recorded in early November 1992, at one of the six sold out shows the band had at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre.
