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If It Was Up To Me Lyrics
(I'd be sleeping now if it was up to me)
Sly fox you really tricked me
Now you've got me on a leash
Throw me a bone
Just drive me home or give me something good to read
I am a nail stuck in a wall
without a string around my neck tied to a frame
Vacant with no war to wage
Can't teach a boy what he don't wanna learn
I'd be sleeping now if it was up to me
Wouldn't hear a sound if it was up to me
If it was up to me...
As empty as this summer town street in January
without a shoe pressing the pavement
walking by me patiently
And there's a song charming my ears infinitely
Motherly it gently sings
In my headphones whispering
Making sure that I am not alone
I'd be sleeping now if it was up to me
Wouldn't hear a sound if it was up to me
If it was up to me
Fill me,
I'm drying out and thin
Save me,
I know you'd kill it.
Now you've got me on a leash
Throw me a bone
Just drive me home or give me something good to read
I am a nail stuck in a wall
without a string around my neck tied to a frame
Vacant with no war to wage
Can't teach a boy what he don't wanna learn
Wouldn't hear a sound if it was up to me
If it was up to me...
without a shoe pressing the pavement
walking by me patiently
And there's a song charming my ears infinitely
Motherly it gently sings
In my headphones whispering
Making sure that I am not alone
Wouldn't hear a sound if it was up to me
If it was up to me
I'm drying out and thin
Save me,
I know you'd kill it.
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this song ROCKS!!!!!! Though hes sings about going to sleep, i think that this song isnt about going to sleep as much as it is about going through some form of strife, i have no idea what it is. I think that what hes really saying about sleeping is that he could be feeling a need for peace, possibly just enough to 'be sleeping now if it was up to me'. Any other thoughts?
he's being all "emo" sleep=death?