Apparently the love of me is enough to put a girl to sleep

Or so I hear when I check in to see what kind of shape she's in

December 2003 waiting and unnerved maybe

She decides to go for a Mulholland drive

Clear her mind

She's so resigned

She can't ever stay awake


She can't keep her eyes open

She falls fast asleep

She's convinced herself and me

The medication's cheating her

Out of a life

A life she has to find

Since I left her behind

In the daylight this time


The time five years before meant so much more

When she moved east and knocked on my door

I was busy working making plans

She had picked up smoking in Japan

I didn't notice how thin she'd become

You see the thing about me is

I'm hard to be with hard to be without

Sometimes I just wish she would

Clear her mind

She's so resigned

She can't ever stay awake


And everything's silent when she screams

And everything's perfect when she dreams

I didn't know when I left that night

That I couldn't save her by holding her tighter


Twists and turns her cigarette burns

She thinks of all the things she's learned

About me, about men, about free

And she sighs, and she cries

Cause she can't ever stay awake


And once in awhile it's okay to give in

And fall fast asleep with ripe lips in a grin

She can't keep her eyes open

But I can't close mine

In the daylight this time