Blitzen Trapper - Sleepytime In The Western World lyrics

rate me

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

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