Sleep That Burns

Album: Sunburst Finish (1976)
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  • A brass band is playing
    Rehearsing its thrills
    All half-moon and cloudy,
    All golden and shrill

    I've got a sleep that burns
    A sleep that burns
    Got a sleep that burns all night

    I'm locked in your dark world
    Where hearts hold the keys,
    Half-opened, enchanted, half-truth

    and

    Half Dreams...

    I'm sitting at a cafe in Paradise...
    Naked as a razor, I'm loaded as a dice...
    The waitresses all ask me for my price
    I laugh and say I'm leaving
    And this is only dreaming
    So hold me while I'm screaming...
    Now...! Is the moment of truth...
    Your youth is a mask but it's not made to last
    For we all have a past to out run
    When the mask comes undone
    And we race on annd on
    Through the fiery portals of hell...!

    Go and tell all your friends
    That you've witnessed the end

    Of the World in a Dream...

    The night winds are howling...
    Seducing the trees,
    I wake in a cold sweat
    With the sheets round my knees

    I lay in the darkness
    With visionless eyes...
    Exhausted and reeling...
    All heartbeats and sighs...

    But the sleep still burns,
    Got a sleep that burns all night

    (sleep is coming, don't you worry) Writer/s: BILL NELSON
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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