The Girl Who Slept for Scotland-The Waterboys

[ti:The Girl Who Slept for Scotland] [ar:The Waterboys] [al:Modern Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Girl Who Slept for Scotland - The Waterboys (水孩子) [00:11.03]I tried to sleep upon my back so I could [00:14.21]Hold her all night long as in my [00:16.99]Arms she slept alas but no I couldn't [00:20.53] [00:22.47]And when daybreak came and found her [00:24.65]At the far side of the bed I tried to [00:28.12]Wake her tried to stir her but she wouldn't [00:31.67] [00:33.52]In her fug she lay like someone dead [00:36.64]And even when I'd tug her head and [00:39.57]Press and nip and agitate and shake her [00:43.47] [00:45.04]Or call her name or whisper it against her ear [00:48.95]My breath warm there were [00:50.69]No words in this universe would wake her [00:53.95] [00:54.51]The girl who slept for Scotland [00:56.74] [01:02.83]The girl who slept for Scotland [01:05.13] [01:11.16]The girl who slept for Scotland [01:13.27] [01:15.58]It took me time to comprehend [01:18.02]This state of play extended unto [01:21.10]All her working waking shaking hours [01:24.73] [01:26.58]For when she finally woke deep in the day [01:29.74]Still she did sleepwalk like a hollow ghost [01:33.55]A-float in haunted towers [01:35.88] [01:37.35]And though she heard she didn't see [01:40.05]And though she saw she didn't hear [01:42.10] [01:42.95]Attending only to what seemed precise and kind [01:47.22] [01:48.41]For she was settled in her dream [01:51.04]A shopping list of small illusions [01:53.96]Pretty stories that she told her drowsy mind [01:57.63] [01:58.18]The girl who slept for Scotland [02:00.77] [02:06.50]The girl who slept for Scotland [02:08.75] [02:14.71]The girl who slept for Scotland [02:17.05] [02:21.54]Yet I remember a day by a river wild [02:25.66] [02:26.76]When she clung to me hard like a darling child [02:31.34] [02:32.14]And a night in the sheets of a Dublin bed [02:36.52] [02:37.45]When she moaned like a woman [02:39.89] [02:40.92]And gave sweet head [02:42.32] [02:42.94]When we sang in tongues together [02:45.07] [02:45.61]And our synchronised guitars [02:48.43]Played music to the rafters [02:51.13]Made love among the stars [02:53.29] [02:53.82]And our bodies beat like light [02:56.45]In love's beautiful embrace [02:58.50] [02:59.22]As her tiny kisses burst like [03:02.43] [03:03.30]Popping suns around my face [03:09.03] [03:10.36]But then drift recline collapse [03:13.01]The lights went out she fell asleep again [03:15.96] [03:16.61]Before my kiss-wet face was even dry [03:19.90] [03:22.01]I need another haircut she'd say [03:24.71] [03:25.23]Talking in her sleep the sleep-motes [03:27.65]Gathered in the dust-bowls of her eye [03:31.27] [03:32.70]She teetered down the road apiece [03:35.12]She and her man from dozy bedsit land [03:38.35]To junkshop with her sleeping clothes in sacks [03:42.91] [03:43.54]And when I'd gone she teetered down the road again [03:46.96] [03:47.53]Yawning as she went [03:49.40]And went and brought the bloody damn things back [03:53.58]The girl who slept for Scotland [03:55.65] [04:01.68]The girl who slept for Scotland [04:04.29] [04:09.81]The girl who slept for Scotland [04:12.02] [04:17.82]The girl who slept for Scotland