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Sleep Of The Just (Letra)

Curso de Violão - Fórmula Violão

Lift up your head, lift up your head
Your room in this decade of eathquake and bile
Awaits you like a stewardess’s mortuary smile

You’ll miss all the fun, you’ll miss all the fun
A rich man turned pauper, his death marked [a sham]
I can’t get back to see it, ‘til you lift up your head

Me and mine are fools, me and mine are fools
Say our elders who despise us, though we’re no longer young
They’re tired of our sneering, and we’ve blocked out their main street’s sun

They’re sleeping as we rise, one punch is drunk with pride
Resides in [brutal face], sick from petrol smoke and [steak]
The few bohemians, with their too-white shopping wrists
Confide in some crimson [page]
And pray to look cute in their squalor-dyed hair
Old age

Rolled out of here, is sun bright and clear
And we hold the fortune, in our cumulous
There’s nothing else on earth that i will be part of
Why waste a lifetime on soil which won’t bear fruit?
And why argue with gangsters who only smile and act mute?
If he pulls that trigger, as he says he must,
Then to them, goes the last word [and then]
The sleep of the just, the sleep of the just, the sleep of the just

But that’s never enough
But that’s never, never enough

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Sleep Of The Just (Letra)

Curso de Violão - Fórmula Violão

The soldier asked my name and did i come here very often
Well i thought that he was asking me to dance
In my holy coat and hat and him in his red bonnet
We’d have made a lovely couple but we never had the chance

[chorus]
And now you say that you’ve got to go
Well if you must you must
I suppose that you need the sleep of the just

Well it was a powerful day and there were black crows in the road
And i kept my strong opinions to my chest
I suppose i should have told them that i was on fire for you
When the bus burst into flames outside some place, ‘the poet’s rest’

[chorus]

A girl woke up in a naked light and said "oh no not again"
He even looked like her brother in the army but she never mentions him
He’ll be tucked up in his bed tonight with his dirty-pictures girl
Saying, ‘you’re some mother’s daughter you know or is it
Immaterial girl?’

Now she’s pinned up upon the barracks wall in her home town
All the soldiers taking turns with their attentions
And as they speculate what she’d look like beneath that thin nightgown
His family pride was rising up as he cast his eyes down