Sleep will pass us by

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