Sleepytime in the Western World

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