Operation Ivy - Sleep Long Lyrics
Sleep long, sleep wellOnly to awake in hell.[x2]One day I saw a man asleepIn a doorway on the streetThrough walls of sheltered inhibitionI perceived his condition.Dying of hunger and exposure,Food and shelter, two blocks over.Within this place we breed and dwellWe've created living hell.Sleep long, sleep wellOnly to awake in hell.[x2]City sleeps and pigeons flutter,Vagrant dies in the gutterPrideless death somehow befittingTo life spent working on forgetting.Riding on the bus, I looked outside and thought about deathPassing cars the only tribute to his gasping final breath.Sleep long, sleep wellOnly to awake in hell.[x2]Then I went home, to get my mind off things,I decided to watch television.Constant subliminal brain immersionSubconscious death wish coercion.Buy and consume and want and needNever fall from the trap of greed.I thought about the bitter painOf jail cells and falling rain,I thought ahead and I looked away,What can you do anyway ?In sheltered youth and our pretensionAvert our eyes to divert attentionOnly to see the human victimsAlways there to remind us.Sleep long, sleep wellOnly to awake in hell.[x2]Only to awake in hell.
