==================Sleepy-Town=====

I whisper beautiful secrets
into the drainpipes at night
for the old folks while they're sleeping,
something to help them with their dreams

I climb the walls of the cemetery,
lay down on the grave of my father
I hear him asking me for forgiveness
so I close my eyes in prayer

and then a rainy-rainy-rain falls down
	cool rainy-rain upon my head
makes the river overflow its banks
	and wash my cares away

to sleepy-town

I pour whiskey in my honeycomb
it makes the bees all turn to angels
I watch ‘em fly off into heaven,
disappear where I can't follow

and I would write Jesus a letter
but I hear that he don't speak English
so instead I'll just throw these cobblestones
until I ring that old church bell

until the rainy-rainy-rain falls down
	cool rainy-rain upon my head
makes the river overflow its banks
	and wash my cares away

	in sleepy-town
you let the wild wind blow away your name
	in sleepy-town
you let the healing rain just wash your pain away

I see a light on in the station
yeah someone's waiting for a train
and I envy them their leaving
as I turn to head back home again

for soon the morning sun will rise
and this little town will open up its eyes,
return from a land I've never been
from a sleepy-town that's free from 

all the rainy-rainy-rain falls down
	cool rainy-rain upon my head
makes the river overflow its banks
	and wash my cares away


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