When Your Parents Go to Sleep

by Kevin Ayers

From the album: Bananamour

Track 3 of 13 on Bananamour (1973).

Duration: 5:47

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Lyrics for When Your Parents Go to Sleep

You lie sleeping all warm I'm here waiting in the storm Waiting for the time to come when I can come in And make sweet love to you till I have to go again. I've been waiting for hours I've been through snowstorms and showers Waiting for the lights to fade and your parents go to sleep Then just like a randy cat into your bed I'll creep. Yes I remember your smell Yes I remember, remember it well Strange kind of animal music in the night Crazy feeling, I just can't explain it right. So I send you these words Let them flutter 'round like birds Times are changed and rearranged but something lingers on I still remember you, that's why I wrote this song.

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