How Can You Sleep?
from Thenever by H. C. Turk
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lyrics
I learned to steal whatever cravings I could deal
Then learned to give what others need
If generosity can be a fatal flaw
Then you’re immortal in your greed
Lying to love is forsaking, making darkness from the light
Why can’t you see the deceit that you keep
And how can you sleep at night?
How can you sleep at night
When gluttony is your appetite?
How can you feed us lies you think we need
And how can you sleep at night?
Panting children lay like patterns on the carpet
Not expecting to be fed
Too young to have their first idea
Too weak to wish that they were dead
We hired your energy to generate a peace
But you profit from another plight
How can you steal and never have to feel
And how can you sleep at night?
How can you sleep at night?
How do you steal a life?
How can you take and persuade that you make
And how can you sleep at night?
The world contains two types of warriors
Both presume help from above
Those who try to kill the things they hate
And those who fight for what they love
I’d love to fool the universal rule
Allowing lowlifes to walk upright
How can you conceal disguises that reveal
You deserve no sleep at night?
How can you sleep at night
When your nightmares expedite
How you make the sky think that air might be a lie
And how can you sleep at night?
Can you take another dollar, should I give another inch?
When you look into a mirror, who’s the first to flinch?
Questions end when every answer sends
A message packing blood
The truth we need is too pure to breed
When guns become tough love
Too weak to have a good idea
But strong enough to spit
Craving raving vengeance
I won’t take another hit
Empathy has ended
Now I’m ready to fight
You taught the cold to burn
But now you’ll have to learn that
You won’t sleep at night
How can I win a fight that exchanges wrong and right?
How can your sin become a type of win
And how can you sleep at night?
Then learned to give what others need
If generosity can be a fatal flaw
Then you’re immortal in your greed
Lying to love is forsaking, making darkness from the light
Why can’t you see the deceit that you keep
And how can you sleep at night?
How can you sleep at night
When gluttony is your appetite?
How can you feed us lies you think we need
And how can you sleep at night?
Panting children lay like patterns on the carpet
Not expecting to be fed
Too young to have their first idea
Too weak to wish that they were dead
We hired your energy to generate a peace
But you profit from another plight
How can you steal and never have to feel
And how can you sleep at night?
How can you sleep at night?
How do you steal a life?
How can you take and persuade that you make
And how can you sleep at night?
The world contains two types of warriors
Both presume help from above
Those who try to kill the things they hate
And those who fight for what they love
I’d love to fool the universal rule
Allowing lowlifes to walk upright
How can you conceal disguises that reveal
You deserve no sleep at night?
How can you sleep at night
When your nightmares expedite
How you make the sky think that air might be a lie
And how can you sleep at night?
Can you take another dollar, should I give another inch?
When you look into a mirror, who’s the first to flinch?
Questions end when every answer sends
A message packing blood
The truth we need is too pure to breed
When guns become tough love
Too weak to have a good idea
But strong enough to spit
Craving raving vengeance
I won’t take another hit
Empathy has ended
Now I’m ready to fight
You taught the cold to burn
But now you’ll have to learn that
You won’t sleep at night
How can I win a fight that exchanges wrong and right?
How can your sin become a type of win
And how can you sleep at night?
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from Thenever,
released May 30, 2011
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H. C. Turk
Space pirates steal skinny gals. Ideas are greater monsters than the demons they explain. I'd bare my soul, but don't want
to bore.
These Mystiphysical treasures can be found in my work, brainy music to make you think about feeling fantastic. In a sonic world where art is the ultimate animal, music evolution never ends, rising from the depths of the psyche to sing across a new sky.
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