No Sleep Blues Lyrics - Incredible String Band/5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion - Incredible String Band

Cracks rack the windows, howls hold the floor 

Rains rot the rafters and do you just have to snore? 

It's a most inclement climate, for the season of the night 

Is that mouse playing football, oh, I thought they didn't like the light? 

And the dawn comes sneaking up when it thinks I'm not looking 

I am starting to grieve, man, I used to know but now I believe, man 

They tell me sleep is a gas and if I want to lay down 

But I'm sorry I woke you, I mean I've got the no sleep blues 

There's mayhem in this mansion, since the cows were coming home 

With delirium no sleep um, in a cloud of nylon foam 

But release scours the outhouse and a hard rain sears the sky 

But if you let the pigs decide it, they will put you in the sty 

And the dawn comes sneaking up when it thinks I'm not looking 

I am starting to grieve, man, I used to know but now I believe, man 

They tell me sleep is a gas and if I want to lay down 

But I'm sorry I woke you, I mean I've got the no sleep blues 

I think I'll get a picture and I think I'll put it on a nail 

I think I'll get another one and put it in a pail 

But the pail got so rusty I called it red, red, red for fun 

And I laughed like a leaver till you ought to seen it run 

And the dawn comes sneaking up when it thinks I'm not looking 

I am starting to grieve, man, I used to know but now I believe, man 

They tell me sleep is a gas and if I want to lay down 

But I'm sorry I woke you, I mean I've got the no sleep blues 

The size of the future declared itself no part 

Aloof like a Sultan in the autumn of your heart 

But the heart got so hearty, that it pulled for the shore 

And the sailors fired a big salute and it made my ears quite sore 

And the dawn was sneaking up when it thinks I'm not looking 

I am starting to grieve, man, I used to know but now I believe, man 

They tell me sleep is a gas and I want to lay down 

But I'm sorry I woke you, I mean I've got the no sleep blues 

I mixed stones and water, just to see what it would do 

And the water it got stoney and the stones got watery too 

So I mixed my feet with water, just to see what could be seen 

And the water it got dirty and the feet they got quite clean 

And the dawn comes sneaking up when it thinks I'm not looking 

I am starting to grieve, man, I used to know but now I believe, man 

They tell me sleep is a gas and if I want to lay down 

But I'm sorry I woke you, I mean I've got the no sleep blues