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yamashita riki - i need some sleep

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Channel: yamashita riki · 2011 · Music

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i need some sleep
(improvised performance)
yamashita riki
www.yamashitariki.com
words and music by yamashita riki
(c) copyright yamashita riki 20030621
all rights reserved


{lyrics - improvised}


wake up
wake me up from my sleep
i don't think my eyes can open that wide 
for the world to be seen by me

my eyes are tired
my soul is restless during the night
yellow pieces of paper they scatter on the floor
the television's dead from the droning of the advertisement lies

i need a dictionary for the world to understand
the complexities
and the basic idea that falls on all things that we have failed to see
it's all in us

i still need it

half tired eyes
yellow beams of light 
beaming on my eyelids as the cars pass by
the streetlights
the traffic slowly, moving
and motionless i am
as stagnation in motion
when all speeds are equal to one 
and there is no motion
in the illusion

don't fall asleep now
just stay a little while longer
just watch it all fall this world that dreams that being 
into delusional prophecies

i got to stay up for the late night movie 
but it's past that time and its ended
my mind is (/eyes are) sleepy and my body aches from cold
where are you now?
the yellow papers

sordid walls and tiled up, emotional

the sky has fallen to sleep
when will i too, find my peace again?
i need some sort of lexicon for the things you speak in conversation 
i just cannot understand what are you are trying to say behind those lies that you show behind your feelings, all the time
i appreciate some
dignity, integrity and some honesty
that why i'm trying to get my sleep

i believe in myself
i believe in no god besides yours and mine that is equal
there is none one above the other, we are equal in equations in expressions, mathematical or otherwise
and my brain's just moves to the side
falling asleep
and logic breaks down to sequences frame by frame
motion by motion
where everything thing is stagnating
where all frequencies are equal 

need to sleep again
need to be who i am
need to be no one and someone from nothing at all
let's just make believe like the performing tarts and the artsy-fartsy people
i hope they reincarnate into animals where they belong in that realm
well, that's just a damn thing
ha ha

i'm going to bed now


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[lyrics produced with permission] 

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