While you're asleep

night is a friend

sun it sleeps again

moon waits at the window

while the violins descend

and i'll pretend

i'm a senator yes i am

and you be the bride

with a bird caught in your smile

and while you're asleep

somebody pulls the puppet strings

and your blue thing

goes singing out in a cornfield after all

and i'd be the nurse

and doctor to your ills

your water, your pills

and your nervous daffodils

and i'd be the judge

and punish every bruise

and i would be the jailor to thee

but i know that it's no use

'cause while i'm asleep

somebody sets you free

and you just pretend

that you don't understand

with a tear stain sky

and a train crash in your eye

so you be the stranger

and you be the prize

locked in some eternity

that we don't realise

but while you're asleep

somebody steals your eyes

and your blue thing

goes singing out in a cornfield after all