Sleep That Burns

A brass band is playing

Rehearsing its 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'm sitting at a cafe in Paradise...

Naked as a razor, I'm 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 annd 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 lay in the darkness

With visionless eyes...

Exhausted and reeling...

All heartbeats and sighs...

But the sleep still burns,

Got a sleep that burns all night

(sleep is coming, don't you worry)