Let Me Sleep Beside You

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

Because the years of threading daisies lie behind you

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

Place your raggy doll with all the toys and paints and beads

Love, well, I will show you games where the winner never wins

Let you hair hang down

Wear the dress your mother wore

Let me sleep beside you

Lock away your childhood and throw away the key

Now the streets and city sights will burn your eyes as coals

We shall drink the oldest wine; velvet skies will linger

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

I will hold a lighted lamp and we shall walk together

Let you 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 give you dreams and I'll tell you things you'd like to hear

Let you hair hang down

Wear the dress your mother wore

Let me sleep beside you

I said let you hair hang down

Wear the dress your mother wore

Let me sleep beside you