I have used the phrase "Hey I can sleep when I'm dead" all my life. Trouble was I damn near killed myself touring. I had so many health problems and had to take a pill for everything. This song is about that experience....
lyrics
Sleep
Where’s my Ambien I’m wide awake in dreamland
Who’s got the Percocet I got an aching in my head
I’m so tired and uninspired
Up down right or left counting sheep and taking breaths
Thought hopping jumping fast tomorrow keeps me in the past
I’ve had enough could it be the drugs
Chorus I can sleep when I’m dead cause I won’t need a bed
just a mattress made of air with clouds for a chair
I can grab forty winks and not even think
that I’m out of my head I can sleep when I’m dead
Chemically codependent yes no I didn’t mean it
Toss me another pill I need to change the way I feel
Yep that’s me three personalities
Where’s my PDR I don’t know what these things are
Will they make me big and tall or really really really small
It’s getting light who turned out the night
Chorus
Chorus
B.Crain
credits
from Hard Places,
track released October 28, 2016
Written by Billy Crain
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