I Slept All Night By My Lover - Greg Brown

Lookin out my window, glad to see another dawn

A few cars strugglin through the snow

It’s so hard to believe it could all be here and gone

So quickly that we wouldn’t even know

And I slept all night by my lover

She trembles in her sleep, deep in a bad dream

I touch her brow and she ceases shaking

Why should I sleep with such a lovely watch to keep

In an hour or so the children will be waking

And I slept all night by my lover

Madmen with guns stalk the deer at night

And bring down the dark the whole world over

Even in my dreams I see their shining eyes

And they pierce me and leave me with no cover

And I slept all night by my lover