It isn't cold now, but I know come sundown
I'll feel ivory bones, right through my clothes
The crease of your tongue gets rung on the pavement
It's base entertainment we're succumbing to

It's hard not to talk to me like a child
When you've lost any point that you're trying to make
I know that
I know that you call yourself clever
I suppose that it's true if you say so yourself

But please don't go to sleep
It'd mean the world to me
If you stayed up to see me leave

I'll sleep when I'm tired
I'll sleep when I'm tired
I'll sleep when I'm ready to leave

You used to arch your back and now your arms are in a knot
Limber thoughts and now you're locked and can't connect the dots

If you breathed for me
And I stood in your shoes
Well I'm sure we'd be fine
And what good would that do?

I've taken your side, too many a time
It's wearing me down, holding your frown
You don't treat me the same in the crowds

Only circumstance while you packed your bags
Made a grand entrance, then jumped over the fence
Dateless at the dance
A vacuum to romance
With the patience that you had
I'm astounded that we ever stood a chance

Please don't go to sleep
It'd mean the world to me
If you stayed up
To see me leave

I'll sleep when I'm tired
I'll sleep when I'm tired
I'll sleep when I'm (x3)

Letting the consciousness slip, intelligence dips
I feel the loosening grip
Lying alone on your side with your eyes open wide
Every night, every time