Sleep Long Lyrics

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Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in hell.
[x2]

One day I saw a man asleep
In a doorway on the street
Through walls of sheltered inhibition
I perceived his condition.
Dying of hunger and exposure,
Food and shelter, two blocks over.
Within this place we breed and dwell
We've created living hell.

Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in hell.
[x2]

City sleeps and pigeons flutter,
Vagrant dies in the gutter
Prideless death somehow befitting
To life spent working on forgetting.
Riding on the bus, I looked outside and thought about death
Passing cars the only tribute to his gasping final breath.

Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in hell.
[x2]

Then I went home, to get my mind off things,
I decided to watch television.
Constant subliminal brain immersion
Subconscious death wish coercion.
Buy and consume and want and need
Never fall from the trap of greed.

I thought about the bitter pain
Of jail cells and falling rain,
I thought ahead and I looked away,
What can you do anyway ?
In sheltered youth and our pretension
Avert our eyes to divert attention
Only to see the human victims
Always there to remind us.

Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in hell.
[x2]

Only to awake in hell

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Sleep long, sleep well  
Only to awake in hell.  
[x2]  
  
One day I saw a man asleep  
In a doorway on the street  
Through walls of sheltered inhibition  
I perceived his condition.  
Dying of hunger and exposure,  
Food and shelter, two blocks over.  
Within this place we breed and dwell  
We've created living hell.  
  
Sleep long, sleep well  
Only to awake in hell.  
[x2]  
  
City sleeps and pigeons flutter,  
Vagrant dies in the gutter  
Prideless death somehow befitting  
To life spent working on forgetting.  
Riding on the bus, I looked outside and thought about death  
Passing cars the only tribute to his gasping final breath.  
  
Sleep long, sleep well  
Only to awake in hell.  
[x2]  
  
Then I went home, to get my mind off things,  
I decided to watch television.  
Constant subliminal brain immersion  
Subconscious death wish coercion.  
Buy and consume and want and need  
Never fall from the trap of greed.  
  
I thought about the bitter pain  
Of jail cells and falling rain,  
I thought ahead and I looked away,  
What can you do anyway ?  
In sheltered youth and our pretension  
Avert our eyes to divert attention  
Only to see the human victims  
Always there to remind us.  
  
Sleep long, sleep well  
Only to awake in hell.  
[x2]  
  
Only to awake in hell

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