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Artist: The Roots
Canonical path: /the-roots/sleep
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Sleep
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Sleep
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Verse 1: aaron livingston
Like when autumn leaves fall
Down from the trees
There goes my honey bee
I've lost a lot of sleep to dreams
And i do not miss them yet
I wouldn't wish them on than worst of enemies
Let them burn, go from here
Like when autumn leaves
Verse 2: black thought
To catch a thief, who stole the soul i prayed to keep
Insomniac, bad dreams got me losing sleep
I'm dead tired, my mind playing tricks, deceit
A face in the glass, unable to admit defeat
All that i am, all that i was is history
The past unraveled, adding insult to this injury
I'm fighting the battle for the soul of the century
Destiny is everything that i pretend to be
Look, and what i did came back to me eventually
The music played on, and told me i was meant to be awake
It's unresolved like everything i had at stake
Illegal activity controls my black symphony
Orchestrated like it happened incidentally
Oh, there i go, from a man to memory
Damn, i wonder if my fam will remember me
Verse 3: aaron livingston
I've lost a lot of sleep to dreams
And i do not miss them yet
I wouldn't wish them on the worst of enemies
Let them burn, go from here
Like when autumn leaves
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