Sleep. Come on in.
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I would like for you to spend the night with me.
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Sleep. Where you been.
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I have surely missed you since you¡¯ve been gone.
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I have walked the dirt and seen the clouds in the sky and
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seen them different in the daytime.
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It hurts my eyes to close them cause they only close to blink away the tears that I cry.
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Sleep. Be my friend.
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I could use a close one to remind me how to live again.
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Sleep. Make it end.
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Let me rest and lie beside my tired old bones and hold me.
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Sing to me a lullaby on hopes of shutting down these eyes and close out the world.
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Force me to dream so I¡¯ll know I¡¯ve slept and shelter me from daylights creeping fingers.
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Sleep. Please appear.
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Show to me your face and tell me it¡¯s ok to rest.
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Sleep. Help me try,
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To put my body down on pillows made out of my Mama¡¯s womb.
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Satisfy my eagerness for comfort in this time of worry let me let it go.
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When I¡¯m sure the lights are out and sandman throws himself about
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I¡¯ll trust you again.
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Sleep. Say my prayers.
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Asking for a place that looks like all the nighttime fantasies.
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Sleep. Are you here?
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Are you real and am I snuggling down tonight?
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Sleep
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Shelby Lynne |