Sleep - Shelby Lynne

Sleep.

Come on in

I would like for you to spend the night with me

Sleep.

Where you been

I have surely missed you since you’ve been gone

I have walked the dirt and seen the clouds in the sky and

Seen them different in the daytime

It hurts my eyes to close them cause they only close to blink away the tears

that I cry

Sleep.

Be my friend

I could use a close one to remind me how to live again

Sleep.

Make it end

Let me rest and lie beside my tired old bones and hold me

Sing to me a lullaby on hopes of shutting down these eyes and close out the

world

Force me to dream so I’ll know I’ve slept and shelter me from daylights

creeping fingers

Sleep.

Please appear

Show to me your face and tell me it’s ok to rest

Sleep.

Help me try

To put my body down on pillows made out of my Mama’s womb

Satisfy my eagerness for comfort in this time of worry let me let it go

When I’m sure the lights are out and sandman throws himself about

I’ll trust you again

Sleep.

Say my prayers

Asking for a place that looks like all the nighttime fantasies

Sleep.

Are you here?

Are you real and am I snuggling down tonight?