While you're asleep

night is a friend 
sun it sleeps again 
moon waits at the window 
while the violins descend 

and i'll pretend 
i'm a senator yes i am 
and you be the bride 
with a bird caught in your smile 

and while you're asleep 
somebody pulls the puppet strings 
and your blue thing 
goes singing out in a cornfield after all 

and i'd be the nurse 
and doctor to your ills 
your water, your pills 
and your nervous daffodils 

and i'd be the judge 
and punish every bruise 
and i would be the jailor to thee 
but i know that it's no use 

'cause while i'm asleep 
somebody sets you free 

and you just pretend 
that you don't understand 
with a tear stain sky 
and a train crash in your eye 

so you be the stranger 
and you be the prize 
locked in some eternity 
that we don't realise 

but while you're asleep 
somebody steals your eyes 
and your blue thing 
goes singing out in a cornfield after all