Let Me Sleep Beside You (BBC Radio Session D.L.T Show)

Baby, baby, brush the dust of youth from off your shoulder

Now the year of fretting days as lie behind you

Don't return to fields of green where rainbow secrets were told

Place your ragged doll with all the toys and things and deeds

I will show you games where the winner never wins

Let your hair hang down

Wear the dress your mother wore

Let me sleep beside you

Lock away your childhood and throw away the key

For now the streets and city sounds will burn your eyes as coals

We shall drink the oldest wine and velvet skies will linger

Child, you're a woman now, your heart and soul are free

I will hold a lighted lamp, and we shall walk together

Let your hair hang down

Wear the dress your mother wore

Let me sleep beside you

Your darkened eyes throw mystery

But your lips are void of history

You could not imagine

That it could happen this way, could you?

I will show you games where the winner never wins

Let your hair hang down

Wear the dress your mother wore

Let me sleep beside you