| Sister sleep come to my bedside and console me
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| Bring me anyone to hold me
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| For I spend too many waking hours in your company
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| Come and close my darkening eyes
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| With your light and nimble fingers
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| Tiptoe them over my eyelashes and sprinkle me with dust
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| Until time passes over us
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| I don’t know if you save souls
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| But could you pick mine up off the floor as you go
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| And bring it back tomorrow
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| Or bring me one I can borrow for the day, just for the day
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| Sister sleep sing me a story with your gentle voice
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| Give me just one reason to rejoice
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| Come and take this silence come and drown out this noise
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| Can I be forgiven 'til morning sun
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| Can I be your angel 'til judgement comes
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| I can see the sun
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| I don’t know if you save souls
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| But could you pick mine up off the floor as you go
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| And bring it back tomorrow
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| When you wake me into this sorrow
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| Or could you bring me a soul I can borrow
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| For the day, just for the day |