Sleepless
Decemberists

As you lie before me now, like a shadow
On a pea green sea
Never thought that I could find you so hollow
Laying into me

This cup of wine, all salt and brines
Make me sleepy and sorrow shows
A field of tears that will never yield a single penny
But I don't know, I've got nothing to hold on to

Wished for gold so I could buy you a palace
By the riverside, you'd come in
And I would fill your diamond chalice
You were still alive

But this cup of wine, all salt and brines
Make me sleepy and sorrow shows
A field of tears that will never yield a single penny
But I don't know, I've got nothing to hold on to
I've got nothing to hold on to

Were you sleepless, tearing at the air?
Was the water everywhere?
Were you fretful to wade into the room?
I'd been wanting to hear from you, oh no

Hand it over, hand it over
You're weary, lay him down
You did your time, so thank you very much
Hand it over, hand it over
So now your hopes are all laid
But you hand it all away

Did his eyelids fix on empty chairs
You had traveled to lay beside?
A gentle torture to watch it all recede
And all the while your mother slept beside him, oh no

Hand it over, hand it over
You're weary, lay him down
You did your time, so thank you very much
Hand it over, hand it over
So now your hopes are all laid
But you hand it all away

Were you sleepless, tearing at the air?
Was the water everywhere?
Were you fearful and long to run away
From the cold clasp of Illinois?
Oh no, oh no

Oh, hand it over, hand it over
You're weary, lay him down
You did your time, so thank you very much
Hand it over, hand it over
So now your hopes are all laid
But you hand it all away, no
But you hand it all away


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  (from My Own True Love) Lost At Sea   12\/17\/12   A Beginning Song   A Bower Scene   After The Bombs   All Arise!   Angel, Won't You Call Me?   Annan Water   Anti-Summersong   Apology Song   Bachelor And The Bride   Bagman's Gambit   Better Not Wake the Baby   Billy Liar   Calamity Song   California One Youth And Beauty Brigade   Carolina Low   Cautionary Song   Cavalry Captain   Chimbley Sweep   Clementine   Cocoon   Constantinople   Culling Of The Fold   Dear Avery   Don't Carry It All   Down By The Water   Easy Come, Easy Go   Eli, The Barrow Boy   Engine Driver   Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out ...   From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea)   Grace Cathedral Hill   Gymnast, High Above The Ground   Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect   Hurdles Even Here   I 4 U & U 4 Me   I Was Meant For The Stage   Infanta   Isn't it a Lovely Night?   January Hymn   July, July!   June Hymn   Lake Song   Legionnaire's Lament   Leslie Anne Levine   Los Angeles, I'm Yours   Make You Better   Margaret in Captivity   Mariner's Revenge Song   Mistral   My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist   O Valencia!   Oceanside   Odalisque   Of Angels And Angles   On The Bus Mall   One Engine   Philomena   Red Right Ankle   Rise To Me   Riverswim   Row Jimmy   Rox In the Box   Shankhill Butchers   Shanty For The Arethusa   Shiny   Sixteen Military Wives   Soldiering Life   Sons and Daughters   Sporting Life   Summersong   Tain, Pts1 - 5   The Abduction of Margaret   The Crane Wife 1 and 2   The Crane Wife 3   The Hazards of Love 1   The Hazards of Love 2   The Hazards of Love 3   The Hazards of Love 4   The Island-Come & See\/The Landlord\u2019s Daughte...   The Kingdom Of Spain   The Landlords Daughter   The Perfect Crime #1   The Perfect Crime #2   The Queen's Approach   The Queen's Rebuke   The Rake's Song   The Singer Addresses His Audience   The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)   The Wanting Comes in Waves   The Wrong Year   This Is Why We Fight   Till the Water Is All Long Gone   Till The Water's All Long Gone   We Both Go Down Together   When The War Came   Won't Want for Love   Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)   Youth and Beauty Brigade

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