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The Decemberists - Sleepless
The Decemberists - Sleepless
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As you lie before me now like a shadow
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On a pea green sea
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Never thought that I could find you so hollow
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Laying into me
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But this cup of wine
All salt and brines make me sleepy
And sorrow sows
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A field of tears that will never yield a single penny
But I don't know
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I've got nothing to hold onto
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Wished for gold so I could buy you a palace
By the riverside
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You'd come in and I would fill your diamond chalice
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You were still alive
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But this cup of wine
All salt and brines make me sleepy
And sorrow sows
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A field of tears that will never yield a single penny
But I don't know
I've got nothing to hold onto
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I've got nothing to hold onto
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Were you sleepless tearing at the air?
Was the water everywhere?
Were you fretful to wade into the room?
I'd been wanting to hear from you - Oh no
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Hand it over (Hand it over)
Hand it over (Ooh-ooh)
You're weary laying down
You did your time so thank you very much
Hand it over (Hand it over)
Hand it over (Ooh-ooh)
So now your hopes are all laid
But you hand it all away
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Did his eyelids fix on empty chairs?
You had traveled to lay beside
A gentle torture to watch it all recede
And all the while your mother slept beside him - Oh no
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Hand it over (Hand it over)
Hand it over (Ooh-ooh)
You're weary laying down
You did your time so thank you very much
Hand it over (Hand it over)
Hand it over (Ooh-ooh)
So now your hopes are all laid
But you hand it all away
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Were you sleepless tearing at the air?
Was the water everywhere?
Were you fearful and long to run away
From the cold clasp of Illinois? - Oh no
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Hand it over (Hand it over)
Hand it over (Ooh-ooh)
You're weary laying down
You did your time so thank you very much
Hand it over (Hand it over)
Hand it over (Ooh-ooh)
So now your hopes are all laid
But you hand it all away
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But you hand it all away
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