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There are things you do because you must
There are things you do because you can
These hours are for the dead and just
But I don’t sleep like them.
If the rumours turn out to be true
and no one remembers your real name
and you’re hungrily gulping air and coughing it out
But the ore-trucks will run over your grave

Sleep, let me sleep.
But please, please no dreams.

this machine has stopped working again
like a train broke down on the rails
hanged with questions unanswered
as if to say 'why are you watching me fail?'

I don’t believe that guy was Jesus
I thought we let the whole place be
So I lie here listening to the cars
And that just got me to thinking
Then he said “On the inside
I’m a different shade of grey
And if I’ve finally understood the choice
We all eat metal in the end”

Sleep, let me sleep.
But please, please no dreams.

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from A Most Imperfect Machine, released July 2, 2021

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Drew Stephenson York, UK

Drew Stephenson is a singer-songwriter based in York, UK, writing conventional songs about unconventional subjects.
Death, monkeys and space hardware may all feature.
He is also part of The Southern Wild.

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