SLEEPWALK
you can't pin me down,
I tend to dodge engagements,
I'll see you around.
Am I ok?,
Not really, no,
I seem to stop and start,
I think I'll sleepwalk out of my heart
sleepwalk in the daytime
access to all fours
Sleepwalk in a straight line
Leading out of the door
Marvelously dead
These friends of mine need exercise
They sleepwalk instead
Sleepwalkin' kid
Who sleepwalks the fractured steps
To the sleepwalking skids
about his ancient art.
I can do it with me eyes closed,
Sleepwalk out of my heart
The hoochie coochie blues
Black slacks and a crombie
Gucchie shoes
are heading right this way
When all the footsteps in the world
Sleepwalk away
Loitering with intent
The human condition
But who knows what percent
I never really care
Sleepwalk anyhow
Anywhere
Faster and faster
One of these talking birds
Sleepwalk away from disasters
Like they never occured.
Keeps me apart
Sleepwalk in slow motion
Out of my heart
The sub pedestrian plod
Sleepwalk on Sunday
Beneath the domes of God
I'm gonna be smart.
Sleepwalk for the last time
Out of my heart.
See myself in a pool
A sleepwalking cutie
Sleepwalking fool.
They do go on.
When normal service is resumed.
I'll be sleepwalking young.
I can wriggle out of arrangements,
Anything I can do let me know
Shop through city on a world of eyes
No guardian angle intercepts the
The way the private eye goes
Stop, look, listen to the zombie
A psycho stud and his steady girl
A victim of ambition
Goodbye from me till now
Sleepwalk, talk
Too much devotion
In the creepy zilch of subways
Such a hazardous pastime
Sleepwalk on duty
Stuck in the afternoon.
LYRICS © JOHN COOPER CLARKE