your eyelids are made of lead you can't keep them up 'cause it's sleepytime and that's no crime in the western world 'cause when the sun goes down you're bound to follow through sleeping through the afternoon i just can't seem to leave my room with all the moon and a love so true it's gonna see me through you know it's gonna see me through
'cause when the sun goes down i'm gonna make like a tree sleeping through the afternoon just can't seem to leave my room with all the moon and a love so true it's gonna see me through you know it's gonna see me through
drifting down the sleepy river waking like a child never gonna know what the spirit's saying unless you drift down for a while never gonna know what the wind is whispering now never gonna know unless you leave this world somehow unless you leave this world somehow
i woke up on the street so apprehensive, feeling weak and as i finally tried to speak twelve birds flew straightways from my mouth and circled high above the sky began to cry with kissing sounds a crowd had gathered on the ground all speaking strangely through their teeth (yeah, through their teeth) i felt alone and in my grief i spoke once more into the wind a storm of birds contained therein began to spin (began to spin)
(it's so cold in here)
your eyelids are made of lead you can't keep them up 'cause it's sleepytime and that's no crime in the western world 'cause when the sun goes down you're bound to follow through sleeping through the afternoon i just can't seem to leave my room with all the moon and a love so true it's gonna see me through you know it's gonna see me through