Your eyelids are made of lead   You can't keep them up   'Cause its sleepytime   And that's no crime in the western world   Cause when the sun goes down   You’re bound to follow through   Sleepin' through the afternoon   I just can't seem to leave my room   Waiting for the moon and a love so true   It's gonna see me through   You know it's gonna see me through      'Cause when the sun goes down   It’s gonna make that dream come true   Sleeping through the afternoon   I just can’t seem to leave my room   Waiting for the moon and a love so true   It’s gonna see me through   You know it’s gonna see me through      Drifting down the sleepy river    Waking like a child   Never gonna know what the spirit said    Unless you drift down for a while   Never gonna know what the wind is whispering now   Never gonna know unless you leave this world somehow   Unless you leave this world somehow      I woke up on the street   So apprehensive, feeling weak   And as I finally tried to speak   Twelve birds flew straightways from my mouth      I circled high above the sky   Began to cry with piercing sounds   A crowd gathered on the ground   All speaking strangely through their teeth      I felt alone and in my crib   I spoke once more into the wind   A storm of birds contained therein    Began to spin, to spin      Your eyelids are made of lead   You can’t keep them up   'Cause it’s sleepy time    And that’s no crime in the western world    Cause when the sun goes down   You’re bound to follow through   Sleepin' through the afternoon   I just can’t seem to leave my room   When I fall in love with a love so true   It’s gonna see me through   You know it’s gonna see me through