While You We're Sleeping chords by Elvis Perkins
Guitar chords with lyrics
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
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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 Last updated: