© by Brett Dennen
So Long, my misery
I don't need you, you have only caused me grief
Forgive me if I fall asleep
I haven't slept in centuries
Daylight lives like a burden for me
So I escaped and sent it strewn about the street
Beyond the ruins of my ancestry
Far past the pages of my disbelief
I rose from my moat like a ghost from a grave
Sunken in the salty eyes of the wandering displaced
I was heading through the mist across the golden gate
All of my rebellions fall into the fog of fate
So long, my misery
I don't need you, you have only caused me grief
Forgive me if I fall asleep
I haven't slept in centuries
Spring time came again and Icarus fell
I flew past the numb lipped nuns who'll never tell
The secrets of the sailors and their seven year spell
I will not fall, nor will my wings ever melt
If I could I would wash all these wounds away
I would surround your room with a sense of mental grace
I would paint your portrait over everything mundane
More colorful than Easter Sunday
So long my misery
I don't need you, you have only caused me grief
Forgive me if I fall asleep
I haven't slept in centuries
Put me on a boat, leave my inhibitions at bay
My mind is spilling but I haven't much to say
I was running through the canyons pulse the echoes of your name
You were laughing at me like the sun laughs at a flame
Put me on a page in a book of beginnings
Let me scroll through old volumes of ancient teachings
Let me revel in all of these forgotten feelings
Lay me with the wretched in the arms of my queen
So long sweet misery
I don't need you, you have only caused me grief
Forgive me if I fall asleep
I haven't slept in centuries
So long sweet misery
I don't need you, you have only caused me grief
Forgive me if I fall asleep
I haven't slept in centuries
No I haven't slept in centuries
I haven't slept in centuries
So Long, my misery
I don't need you, you have only caused me grief
Forgive me if I fall asleep
I haven't slept in centuries
Daylight lives like a burden for me
So I escaped and sent it strewn about the street
Beyond the ruins of my ancestry
Far past the pages of my disbelief
I rose from my moat like a ghost from a grave
Sunken in the salty eyes of the wandering displaced
I was heading through the mist across the golden gate
All of my rebellions fall into the fog of fate
So long, my misery
I don't need you, you have only caused me grief
Forgive me if I fall asleep
I haven't slept in centuries
Spring time came again and Icarus fell
I flew past the numb lipped nuns who'll never tell
The secrets of the sailors and their seven year spell
I will not fall, nor will my wings ever melt
If I could I would wash all these wounds away
I would surround your room with a sense of mental grace
I would paint your portrait over everything mundane
More colorful than Easter Sunday
So long my misery
I don't need you, you have only caused me grief
Forgive me if I fall asleep
I haven't slept in centuries
Put me on a boat, leave my inhibitions at bay
My mind is spilling but I haven't much to say
I was running through the canyons pulse the echoes of your name
You were laughing at me like the sun laughs at a flame
Put me on a page in a book of beginnings
Let me scroll through old volumes of ancient teachings
Let me revel in all of these forgotten feelings
Lay me with the wretched in the arms of my queen
So long sweet misery
I don't need you, you have only caused me grief
Forgive me if I fall asleep
I haven't slept in centuries
So long sweet misery
I don't need you, you have only caused me grief
Forgive me if I fall asleep
I haven't slept in centuries
No I haven't slept in centuries
I haven't slept in centuries