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