Sleep

Album: Light & Gold (2001)
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  • The evening hangs beneath the moon
    A silver thread on darkened dune
    With closing eyes and resting head
    I know that sleep is coming soon

    Upon my pillow, safe in bed
    A thousand pictures fill my head
    I cannot sleep my minds a flight
    And yet my limbs seem made of lead

    If there are noises in the night
    A frighting shadow, flickering light
    Then I surrender unto sleep

    Where clouds of dreams give second sight

    What dreams may come both dark and deep

    Of flying wings and soaring leap

    As I surrender unto sleep
    As I surrender unto sleep Writer/s: ELVIS COSTELLO
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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