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Lyrics-

Sleep long, sleep well

Only to awake in hell.

[x2]

One day I saw a man asleep

In a doorway on the street

Through walls of sheltered inhibition

I perceived his condition.

Dying of hunger and exposure,

Food and shelter, two blocks over.

Within this place we breed and dwell

We've created living hell.

Sleep long, sleep well

Only to awake in hell.

[x2]

City sleeps and pigeons flutter,

Vagrant dies in the gutter

Prideless death somehow befitting

To life spent working on forgetting.

Riding on the bus, I looked outside and thought about death

Passing cars the only tribute to his gasping final breath.

Sleep long, sleep well

Only to awake in hell.

[x2]

Then I went home, to get my mind off things,

I decided to watch television.

Constant subliminal brain immersion

Subconscious death wish coercion.

Buy and consume and want and need

Never fall from the trap of greed.

I thought about the bitter pain

Of jail cells and falling rain,

I thought ahead and I looked away,

What can you do anyway ?

In sheltered youth and our pretension

Avert our eyes to divert attention

Only to see the human victims

Always there to remind us.

Sleep long, sleep well

Only to awake in hell.

[x2]

Only to awake in hell.