While You Were Sleeping Lyrics - Ash Wednesday - Elvis Perkins

While you were sleeping your babies grew 

The stars shined and the shadows moved 

Time flew the phone rang 

There was a silence when the kitchen sang 

Its songs competed like kids for space 

We stared for hours in our maker?s face 

They gave us picks said "go mine the sun 

And go gold and come back when you're done" 

Uh oh 

While you were sleeping you tossed you turned 

You rolled your eyes as the world burned 

The heavens fell the earth quaked 

I thought you must be but you weren't awake, no 

You were dreaming you ignored the sun 

You grew your power garden for your little ones 

And you found brides for them on Christmas Eve 

They hung young Cain from the Adam trees 

And danced uh oh 

While you were sleeping I tossed and I turned too 

I closed my eyes but the future burned through 

The planet turned a hair grey as I relived the day 

While you were sleeping the money died 

Machines were harmless and the earth sighed 

The wind you swept sound and gravity brought my love 

Around 

The oceans rose sang about decay 

The witches flew and the mermaids stayed 

Full of dreams you overslept 

In keeping with the quiet through the walls I crept 

I walked on tip-toes sent darkness swirling over all 

The kitchen 

In the early morning 

Uh oh uh oh 

I'll never catch up to you who sleep so sound 

My yawns are useless my heart beats too loud 

To go to sleep my mind's too proud to bow out 

While you were sleeping the time changed 

All your things were rearranged 

Your vampire mirrors face to face 

They saw forever out into space and found you dreaming 

In black and white 

While it rained in all the colors of the night 

Uh oh uh oh 

I watched the tv?s memories champion ships vanish to sea 

Can it be my honey between you and me 

So I waited for the riddled sky to be solved again by 

Sunrise 

And I made a death soup for life 

For my father?s ill widowed wife 

Did you have that strangest dream before you woke 

'Cause in your gown you had the butterfly stroke 

Did it escape you like some half-told joke 

When you reached for your plume of smoke 

And it'll haunt you my honey bee 

Anyone who's anyone has that same dream 

Were you falling were you flying and were you calling 

Out or were you dying 

But thank god you're up now let's stay this way 

Else there'll be no mornings and no more days 

'Cause when we?re dreaming the babies grow 

The stars shine and the shadows flow 

Time flies the phone rings there is a silence 

When everybody tries to sing 

Uh oh uh oh