Chris & Carla

Sleep will pass us by

Chris & Carla


I keep thinkin' that she's goin' down 
My second sight a fixed on her demise 
A slow and silent stretch, broods like the riverbed 
Swirlin' round the big and muddy rise 

Sulfur colored lights, and frozen rays 
Lighin' up the streets behind the bar 
The lights are weak and dim, like 
the memory of our kin 
Disgraced by curses best not learned at all 

Sleep will pass us by 
It's much too slow for that 
This town died but they forgot the funeral 
When this town died, they forgot the funeral 

Ill afford and ill equiped 
Fever-eyed surrender to the rains 
The cottonwoods wash locusts from their hair 
It's hard to know just what the daylight brings 

Sleep will pass us by 
It's much too slow for that 
This town died but they forgot the funeral 
When this town died, they forgot the funeral 

Scapegoat heart and scarecrow legs 
Nothin' in your pockets worth a dime 
A trifling animal, the packhorse of our pride 
Leaves the room and carries on so stubbornly 

Sleep will pass us by 
It's much too slow for that 
This town died but they forgot the funeral 
When this town died, they forgot the funeral