GrooveLily

Lullaby/Dream With Me
Copyright © 2006 by Milburn & Vigoda

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Settle down
Safe and sound
Under your blanket
Nighty-night
Dim the light
It’s all right if you sleep tight and dream

BEAUTY
I dreamt that I woke but I found I was still sleeping
Shards of my dream like the grains of the sand
Where I stand on the shore on the edge
of awakening
See how they slip through my hand
I wish I could wake for I know time is
passing me by
All my life it’s been racing too fast
But the voices I hear are the echoes of history
Sleepers from centuries past
Singing

BEAUTY & CHORUS OF THE
WORLD’S GREAT SLEEPERS
Dream with me

Come rest a while in the
shade of my tree why not
Dream with me
Come spend a while swimming
under the sea why not
Dream all night with me
On a cushioning carpet of leaves as you slumber
Let branches enfold you for days without number
We’ll make you a bed on the floor of the ocean
The seaweed will sway you to sleep
in slow motion
Don’t fight it, say good night
It’s all right if you sleep tight and dream

BEAUTY
Once in a while there’s the strangest sensation
More fleeting than real, someone’s lips
against mine
And it’s fine but I know that it isn’t worth
waking for
Kisses so dull and benign

I yearn for a jolt, for a shock to the system
A wave of excitement to ride or to drown
But each time I surf to the crest of that kiss then
The sleepers will pull me back down
Singing

BEAUTY & CHORUS OF THE
WORLD’S GREAT SLEEPERS
Dream with me
Nobody knows if you’re sleeping or waking just
Dream with me
Beautiful butterfly wings for the taking just
Dream all night with me
Cocooned under covers you flit through the hours
You flutter and fly between flaxseed and flowers
You crinkle your wings like the folds of a fan
You’re a butterfly dreaming you might be a man
Don’t fight it, say good night
It’s all right if you sleep tight and dream