The Telltales
 

Sleep Crime

You sleep beside me
All peace and ease
The rain falls softly
Across our eaves

It seems an age now
Since he’s been gone
I haven’t slept
In oh so long

I want to shake you
And make you see
The way you’re coping
It’s like a crime to me
Oh can’t you see

How can you dream now
It’s just not right
To drift so free
From the night
To drift so free

So let the rain cry now
Like you never could
Let it howl your grief
Like you know you should

Let it wake you from
That placid place
Remind you of
His precious face

Let it drown the world
And black the sun
And scream the news
To everyone

How can you dream now
It’s just not right
To drift so free
From the night
To drift so free


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Music and lyrics: Toby Roberts. Instrumentation: The Telltales. Recording: Steve Shipley, Lemon Studios, 2004. Produced by The Telltales and Steve Shipley. Mastering: William Bowden. All recordings ©2004 Will Belford, Peter Gifford, Mark Roberts, Toby Roberts (The Telltales). All compositions (lyrics & music) ©2000-2004 Toby Roberts. Painting: from Pieter Brueghel’s Haymaking and Tower of Babel, reproduced courtesy of the State Reference Library, State Library of New South Wales.