Sleep That Burns - Be Bop Deluxe

A brass band is playing, rehearsing it’s 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’ve got a sleep that burns.

.. a sleep that burns.

Got a sleep that burns all night

I’m sitting in a cafe in paradise.

Naked as a razor, I’m as 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 and 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’ve got a sleep that burns.

.. a sleep that burns.

Got a sleep that burns all night

I lay in the darkness with visionless eyes.

Exhausted and reeling.

.. all heartbeats and sighs.

But the sleep still burns, yes, the sleep still burns

Got a sleep that burns all night.

(sleep is coming, don’t you worry. . .)