SLEEPWALKERS
When they're playing chess with you...
The game never lasts very long
Still haven't got a clue... why do you...
Why do you smile when you take a pawn?
Then their bishop overtakes your knight
When he wasn't even dressed to fight
Soon their queen upends your rook
Before you could even look
Another smile...your knight just claimed a pawn
But now... now your little horsie's gone
He didn't run away... he just got sleighed
As the king of your castle he numbers his days
Yeah, you're wondering and pondering
As you're endlessly wandering on and on and on...
And you're scribbling and scrabbling
Along the chessboard of life feeling you're just a pawn
Sleepwalkers
Sleepwalkers
You just made a list of things that you need to say
About yourself, about the world and all its ways
Sometimes you think that it's a lie that hard work pays
Now that everything has been numbered - yes even your days
Why is everyone... sleepwalking around this globe…
This giant wheel?
Seems as a whole we can no longer feel
While deep in this slumber
For the gift of the presence of love we no longer hunger
When our dreams are gone... yet we still walk on and on and on and on...
You just made a list of the things that you need to say
And it 'tis just one...
There's hardly no time left for anyone
As names and faces keep fading farther away
Still, you know you've got so much to give... so with this guilt you live
I'm sorry, but there's just too few hours in a day
You find your precious time becomes taken up
Oh look now how... You're so easily led astray...
How'd your life become this way?
(sleepwalkers)
Is this what you say?
(sleepwalkers)
While you're wondering and pondering
As you're wandering on and on and on and on...
As you're scribbling and scrabbling
Along the chessboard of life feeling you're just a pawn
sleepwalkers
sleepwalkers