Sleep Tonight

Album: Dirty Work (1986)
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  • You better get some sleep tonight
    You better get some sleep tonight
    Honey, just warn your friends
    You better get some sleep tonight

    You always watch the sun go down
    The same old shadows crawl over town
    Those thoughts of you it shivers me
    The moon grows cold in memory

    Baby you better get some sleep tonight
    All you got to do is close your eyes
    You better get some sleep tonight

    I wish you baby, all the best
    If you turn out like all the rest
    This darkness baby, it's chilling me
    Stars store down in sympathy

    Baby you better get some sleep tonight
    All you got to do is close your eyes
    Baby you better get some sleep tonight

    You better get some sleep tonight
    You better get some sleep tonight
    Warn all your friends
    You better keep them out of sight
    You better get some sleep tonight

    They robbed you of your dignity
    They even steal your heart from me
    It ain't revenge, you understand
    Baby I just want to know who death this hand

    Baby, ah that's alright
    Baby you better get some sleep tonight
    All you got to do is close your eyes
    Baby you better get some sleep tonight
    You better get some sleep tonight
    You better get some sleep tonight Writer/s: KEITH RICHARDS, MICK JAGGER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Demian from Buenos Aires, Argentinathe dirty work album was written by keith, only by keith.
  • Skip from Mandeville, LaKeith managed to rip off his own bridge from Goats Head Soup's Coming Down Again for the basis of Sleep Tonight.
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