Your eyelids are made of lead

You can't keep them open


Cause its 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


Waiting for 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

It's gonna make that dream come true


Sleeping through the afternoon


I just can't seem to leave my room

Waiting for 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 said


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




I woke up on the street


So apprehensive, feeling weak


And as I finally tried to speak

Twelve birds flew straightways from my mouth





I circled high above the sky

Began to cry with piercing sounds


A crowd gathered on the ground


All speaking strangely through their teeth




I felt alone and in my crib

I spoke once more into the wind


A storm of birds contained therein

Began to spin, to spin




Your eyelids are made of lead

You can't keep them open


Cause it's sleepy time

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


When I fall in love with a love so true

It's gonna see me through

You know it's gonna see me through