While You Were Sleeping chords by Elvis Perkins

Chords with lyrics

Verse:
   G+G      C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
While you were sleeping your babies grew
   G+G    C majorC      G+G    A minorAm
The stars shined and the shadows moved
G+G  C majorC    G+G   A minorAm
Time flew the phone rang
   G+G   C majorC        G+G    A minorAm
There was a silence when the kitchen sang
  G+G     C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
Its songs competed like kids for space
   G+G    C majorC      G+G    A minorAm
We stared for hours in our maker's face
   G+G    C majorC       G+G    A minorAm
They gave us picks said "go mine the sun
   G+G C majorC        G+G      A minorAm
And go gold and come back when you're done"
G+G  C majorC  G+G  C majorC
Uh oh  Uh Oh

Verse:
    G+G    C majorC      G+G     A minorAm
While you were sleeping you tossed you turned
  G+G      C majorC      G+G   A minorAm
You rolled your eyes as the world burned
  G+G    C majorC    G+G   A minorAm
The heavens fell the earth quaked
  G+G     C majorC        G+G    A minorAm
I thought you must be but you weren't awake, no
 G+G    C majorC      G+G     A minorAm
You were dreaming you ignored the sun
        G+G   C majorC       G+G   A minorAm
You grew your power garden for your little ones
    G+G   C majorC         G+G     A minorAm
And you found brides for them on Christmas Eve
   G+G     C majorC      G+G   A minorAm
They hung young Cain from the Adam trees
G+G C majorC    G+G A minorAm
And danced uh oh
G+G C majorC G+G  A minorAm
Uh Oh Uh Oh


Chorus:
A minorAm       E MajorE             A minorAm
While you were sleeping I tossed and I turned too
       DmDm         G+G
I closed my eyes but the future burned through
      C majorC       FF           E MajorE
The planet turned a hair grey as I relived the day

Verse:
    G+G    C majorC      G+G   A minorAm
While you were sleeping the money died
  G+G      C majorC        G+G   A minorAm
Machines were harmless and the earth sighed
G+G  C majorC    G+G  A minorAm
The wind you swept sound
 G+G   C majorC       G+G  A minorAm
and gravity brought my love around
  G+G   C majorC     G+G   A minorAm
The oceans rose sang about decay
  G+G    C majorC      G+G    A minorAm
The witches flew and the mermaids stayed
 G+G   C majorC     G+G  A minorAm
Full of dreams you overslept
      G+G     C majorC         G+G   A minorAm
In keeping with the quiet through the walls I crept
 G+G     C majorC       G+G    A minorAm
I walked on tip-toes sent darkness swirling over
 G+G   C majorC       G+G   A minorAm
All the kitchen in the early morning
G+G  C majorC G+G A minorAm
Uh oh uh oh

Chorus:
         E MajorE       A minorAm
I'll never catch up to you who sleep so sound
  DmDm          G+G
My yawns are useless my heart beats too loud
     C majorC          FF      E MajorE
To go to sleep my mind's too proud to bow out

Verse:
    G+G   C majorC      G+G  A minorAm
While you were sleeping the time changed
G+G     C majorC     G+G  A minorAm
All your things were rearranged
   G+G   C majorC    G+G   A minorAm
Your vampire mirrors face to face
G+G    C majorC      G+G   A minorAm
They saw forever out into space
   G+G    C majorC      G+G     A minorAm
and found you dreaming in black and white
       G+G   C majorC        G+G   A minorAm
While it rained in all the colors of the night
G+G C majorC G+G A minorAm
Uh oh uh oh

Chorus:
       E MajorE     A minorAm
I watched the tv's memories
      DmDm       G+G
champion ships vanish to sea
    C majorC     FF          E MajorE
Can it be my honey bee-tween you and me

Verse:
G+G  C majorC       G+G    A minorAm
So I waited for the riddled sky to be
 G+G  C majorC      G+G  A minorAm
solved again by the sunrise
   G+G    C majorC   G+G    A minorAm
And I made a death soup for life
G+G   C majorC       G+G   A minorAm
For my father's ill widowed wife


Chorus:
          E MajorE             A minorAm
Did you have that stranger's dream before you woke
         D MajorD             G+G
'Cause in your gown you had the butterfly stroke
    C majorC                FF
Did it escape you like some half-told joke
                  E MajorE
When you reached for your plume of smoke

Verse:
     G+G  C majorC     G+G  A minorAm
And it'll haunt you my honey bee
    G+G   C majorC       G+G   A minorAm
Anyone who's anyone has that same dream
G+G     C majorC   G+G    A minorAm
Were you falling were you flying and
G+G    C majorC       G+G     A minorAm
were you calling out or were you dying
  G+G    C majorC           G+G     A minorAm
But thank god you're up now let's stay this way
       G+G   C majorC      G+G   A minorAm
Else there'll be no mornings and no more days
  G+G       C majorC       G+G  A minorAm
'Cause when were dreaming the babies grow
  G+G   C majorC       G+G   A minorAm
The sun shines and the shadows flow
 G+G  C majorC    G+G  A minorAm
Time flies the phone rings
 G+G    C majorC       G+G    C majorC
There is a silence when everybody tries to sing
G+G C majorC  G+G A minorAm
Uh oh uh oh

G+G C majorC  G+G A minorAm
Uh oh uh oh

G+G C majorC  G+G A minorAm
Uh oh uh oh