While You Were Sleeping chords by Elvis Perkins

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

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


Chorus:
Am             E                         Am
While you were sleeping I tossed and I turned too
              Dm                  G
I closed my eyes but the future burned through
           C             F                     E
The planet turned a hair grey as I relived the day


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

Chorus:
                 E             Am
I'll never catch up to you who sleep so sound
   Dm                   G
My yawns are useless my heart beats too loud
         C                   F            E
To go to sleep my mind's too proud to bow out

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

Chorus:
              E         Am
I watched the tv's memories
           Dm              G
champion ships vanish to sea
        C          F                    E
Can it be my honey bee-tween you and me

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


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

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

G  C   G Am
Uh oh uh oh

G  C   G Am
Uh oh uh oh