Sleep That Burns

Sleep That Burns - Be Bop Deluxe

Written by：Bill Nelson

A brass band is playing

Rehearsing it's thrills

All half moon and cloudy

All golden and shrill

Got a sleep that burns

A sleep that burns

Got a sleep that burns all night

All right

I'm locked in your dark world

Where hearts hold the keys

Half opened enchanted

Half truth and half dreams

Got a sleep that burns

A sleep that burns

Got a sleep that burns all night

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 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

A dream

The night winds are howling

Seducing the trees

I wake in a cold sweat

With the sheets round my knees

Got a sleep that burns

Got a sleep that burns

Got a sleep that burns all night

All right

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

All night

All night

All night