Sleeping City Lyrics

Went to look for inspiration

When I couldn't get to sleep

Peeled my head right off the pillow

Found myself out on the street

Went looking for salvation

From the scattered mess of mind

Fighting off the Melatonin

Thinking somehow, I might find

A little purpose, in these shadows

Broken only by light rays

Thrown around the lamps like halos

Hanging on an angel face

Streets are empty, time is frozen

Like a postcard picture scene

In the light the snow is falling

Melting soft on salted streets

What a lonely night in Boston

They'd already shut the T

Backbay bars were all passed closing

City swept up in a dream

So, I wandered to the river

Just to find that perfect view

Leaning on the Harvard bridge rail

As the Charles funneled through

And I heard the water flowing

Halfway frozen, halfway thawed

Half asleep and half awake

Halfway there and halfway gone

What a pretty sleeping city

What a gorgeous sleeping view

What an ancient sleeping wonder

Full of ageless fleeting youth

What a pretty sleeping city

What a silent sleeping night

When a peaceful sleeping lover

Filled my dreams and closed my eyes