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While you were sleeping |
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Your babies grew |
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The stars shined and the shadows moved |
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Time flew, the phone rang |
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There was a silence when the kitchen sang |
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Its songs competed like kids for space |
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We stared for hours in our maker's face |
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They gave us picks |
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Said go mine the sun |
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And go gold and come back when you're done |
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While you were sleeping |
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You tossed, you turned |
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You rolled your eyes as the world burned |
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The heavens fell, the earth quaked |
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I thought you must be, but you weren't awake |
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No, you were dreaming |
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You ignored the sun |
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You grew your power garden |
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For your little ones |
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And you found brides for them on christmas eve |
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They hung young cain from the adam trees |
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And danced |
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While you were sleeping |
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I tossed and I turned |
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'til I closed my eyes |
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But the future burned |
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Through the planet turned |
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A hair gray |
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As I relived the day |
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While you were sleeping |
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The money died |
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Machines were harmless and the earth sighed |
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Through the wind you swept sound |
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And gravity caught my love around |
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The oceans rose, sang about decay |
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While witches flew |
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And the mermaids stayed |
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Full of dreams, you overslept |
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And keeping with the quiet, through the walls I crept |
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I walked on tiptoe, sent darkness swirling |
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Over all the kitchen in the early morning |
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I'll never catch up to you |
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Who sleeps so sound |
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My arms are useless |
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My heart beats too loud |
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To go to sleep |
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My mind's too proud |
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To bow out |
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While you were sleeping |
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The time changed |
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All your things were rearranged |
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Your vampire mirrors face to face |
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They saw forever out into space |
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And found you dreaming in black and white |
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While it rained in all the colors of the night |
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I watched the tvs |
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Memories |
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Championships |
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Vanished to sea |
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Can it be, |
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My honey between you and me |
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So I waited for the riddled sky |
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To dissolve again by the sunrise |
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And I've made a death suit for life |
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For my father's ill widowed wife |
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Did you have that strangest dream before you woke? |
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'cause in your gown you had the butterfly stroke |
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Did it escape you like some half told joke? |
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When you reached for your plume of smoke |
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It'll haunt you, my honey bee |
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Anyone who is anyone has that same dream |
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Were you falling |
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Were you flying |
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And were you calling out |
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Or were you dying |
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Thank god you're up now |
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Let's stay this way |
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Else there'll be no mornings |
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And no more days |
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'cause when we're dreaming |
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The babies grow |
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The sun shines |
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And the shadows flow |
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Time flies |
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The phone rings |
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There is a silence |
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When everybody tries to sing |