While You Sleep

While you sleep
Coiled up like a spring
I remember everything from the first day

Summer flowers
Shimmering in the street
Plastic sandals on your feet in the doorway

You looked so hungry
You couldn't stand still
You made everything in the flat look so cheap

I showed you round
Forgetting when to breathe
And that's still the way I feel when I watch you while you sleep

While you sleep
The Earth revolves in space
Ships and planes they race towards tomorrow

You took the room
And pretty soon I knew
That we all would fly to you like little arrows

Fancy dressers
Queens and jesters
Throwing glances your way

In the street
Never worries me
Cause I'm the one that gets to be beside you while you sleep

Once on a still, grey, motorway day
We jumped the green fence and we lay
Watching all the expensive people speeding away

Just before the sun's up
The wallpaper lights up
And another car climbs the hill

They will keep
Whatever plans I've made
They'll wait for another day
When I will tell you things that now I only tell you while you sleep