Can I sleep in your arms tonight, sister? Can I lay down with you here tonight? I would shield you from the morning sun We'll stroll arm and arm in the kingdom come Can I sleep in your arms tonight?
You know I ain't never going back to Commerce City Who knows how many times they've taken my last twenty dollar bill There ain't no love lost there ain't no more time to kill
All my brothers they're up on Jersey landfill And I ain't never going back to that town Can I sleep in your arms tonight, sister? Can I lay down with you here tonight? And still your voice can remind me of better days Yours is the voice that can carry me away Let me sleep in your arms tonight
Darling, what was the truth that we learned? As the whiskey finally eats your heart And where was that place I was born tonight? It's the one that leads straight to your heart What was that truth that we learned?
Can I sleep in your arms tonight, sister? Can I lay down with you here tonight? Let me sleep in your arms tonight Can I sleep in your arms tonight, sister?