Sleep

by The Roots

From the album: undun

Track 2 of 14 on undun (2011).

Duration: 02:15

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Lyrics for Sleep

Like when autumn leaves fall Down from the trees There goes my honey bee I've lost a lot of sleep to dreams And I do not miss them yet I wouldn't wish them on the worst of enemies Let them burn, go from here Like when autumn leaves To catch a thief, who stole the soul I prayed to keep Insomniac, bad dreams got me losing sleep I'm dead tired, my mind playing tricks, deceit A face in the glass, unable to admit defeat All that I am, all that I was is history The past unraveled, adding insult to this injury I'm fighting the battle for the soul of the century Destiny is everything that I pretend to be Look, and what I did came back to me eventually The music played on, and told me I was meant to be awake It's unresolved like everything I had at stake Illegal activity controls my black symphony Orchestrated like it happened incidentally Oh, there I go, from a man to memory Damn, I wonder if my fam will remember me I've lost a lot of sleep to dreams And I do not miss them yet I wouldn't wish them on the worst of enemies Let them burn, go from here Like when autumn leaves

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More from undun

  1. Dun
  2. Sleep
  3. Make My
  4. One Time
  5. Kool On
  6. The OtherSide
  7. Stomp
  8. Lighthouse
  9. I Remember
  10. Tip The Scale
  11. Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
  12. Possibility (2nd Movement)
  13. Will To Power (3rd Movement)
  14. Finality (4th Movement)