Sleep Long Lyrics - Energy - Operation Ivy

Sleep long, sleep well 

Only to wake in hell 

Sleep long, sleep well 

Only to wake in hell 

One day I saw a man asleep 

In a doorway on the street 

Through walls of sheltered inhibition 

I perceived his condition 

Dying of hunger, exposure 

Food and shelter, two blocks over. 

Within this place we breed and dwell 

We've created living hell. 

Sleep long, sleep well 

Only to wake in hell 

Sleep long, sleep well 

Only to wake in hell 

City sleeps and pigeons flutter, 

Vagrant dies in the gutter 

Prideless death somehow befitting 

To life spent working on forgetting 

Riding on the bus, I looked outside and thought 

about death, 

Passing cars the only tribute to his gasping final 

breath. 

Sleep long, sleep well 

Only to wake in hell 

Sleep long, sleep well 

Only to wake in hell 

Then I went home, to get my mind off things, 

I decided to watch television. 

Constant subliminal brain immersion 

Subconscious death was his coercion. 

Buy and consume and want and need 

Never fall from the trap of greed. 

I thought about the bitter pain 

Of jail cells and falling rain, 

I thought ahead and looked away, 

What can you do anyway? 

In sheltered youth and our pretention 

Avert our eyes to divert attention 

Only to see the human victims 

Always there to remind us. 

Sleep long sleep well 

Only to awake in hell 

Sleep long, sleep well 

Only to wake in hell 

Only to wake in hell