No Sleep Blues (2010 Remaster) - The Incredible String Band

作词：Robin Williamson

作曲：Robin Williamson

Cracks rack the windows

Howls hold the floor

Rains rot the rafters

And do you just have to snore

It's a most inclement climate

For the season of the night

Is that mouse playing football oh

I thought they didn't like the light

And the dawn comes sneaking up

When it thinks I'm not looking

I'm starting to grieve man

I used to know but now I believe man

They tell me sleep is a gas

And if I want to lay down

But I'm sorry I woke you

I mean I've got the no sleep blues

There's mayhem in this mansion

Since the cows were coming home

With delirium no sleepum

In a cloud of nylon foam

But release scours the outhouse

And a hard rain sears the sky

But if you let the pigs decide it

They will put you in the sty

And the dawn comes sneaking up

When it thinks I'm not looking

I'm starting to grieve man

I used to know but now I believe man

They tell me sleep is a gas

I wanna lay down

But I'm sorry I woke you

I mean I've got the no sleep blues

I think I'll get a picture

And I think I'll put it on a nail

I think I'll get another one

And put it in a pail

But the pail got so rusty

I called it red red red for fun

And I laughed like a leaver

Till you ought to seen it run

And the dawn comes sneaking up

When it thinks I'm not looking

I'm starting to grieve man

I used to know but now I believe man

They tell me sleep is a gas

But I wanna lay down

But I'm sorry I woke you

I mean I've got the no sleep blues

The size of the future declared itself no part

Aloof like a Sultan in the autumn of your heart

But the heart got so hearty

That it pulled for the shore

And the sailors fired a big salute

And it made my ears quite sore

And the dawn was sneaking up

When it thinks I'm not looking

I'm starting to grieve man

I used to know but now I believe man

They tell me sleep is a gas

I wanna lay down

But I'm sorry I woke you

I mean I've got the no sleep blues

I mixed stones and water

Just to see what it would do

And the water it got stoney

And the stones got watery too

So I mixed my feet with water

Just to see what could be seen

And the water it got dirty

And the feet they got quite clean

And the dawn comes sneaking up

When it thinks I'm not looking

I'm starting to grieve man

I used to know but now I believe man

They tell me sleep is a gas

I wanna lay down

But I'm sorry I woke you

I mean I've got the no sleep blues