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Big Sleep Tab

by Streetlight Manifesto


The Big Sleep
Streetlight Manifesto

Intro 

                     

                     

                             

          

Verse

                              
Why do you cry when you know how the story ends?

                                  
How can you laugh when you know that it hurts your friends?

                                          
We've all been there once, but you never left 

                                                   
This is me coming back to get you out to say goodbye, to make amends

                  
I'm not leaving this place

                
Unless I'm leaving with you

                                            
Cause you're the only person with a half decent heart here

                   
And I know you will put it to use

                    
Until it's gone, gone, gone

         
Gone, gone, gone

                       
Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, yeah

Prechorus


Na, na, na, na, na, na


Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

                   
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na


Na, na, na, na, na, na


Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

                   
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Chorus

                          
When as you close your eyes for the big sleep


I hope you think of me, yeah


Na, na, na, na, na, na


Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

                   
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Verse

              
And if you go, I'll be gone

                                        
And you'll be left alone to live your life, as you please

                                       
But someday you'll agree that I was always meant for you

                                          
You were always meant for me and you will see

                 
that you're impossible

              
You're impossible

              
You're impossible

              
You're impossible

Horn Riff

                       

Verse

                     
Me and Mr. Dylan on the ride home

                     
We had a heart-to-heart about life

                               
But neither him or me could decide for ourselves 

               
If we wanted to outlive that night

                                        
Like two children on the playground of the unconfessed souls

                              
Abandoned by our mothers and our lovers and our foes

                                           
If only we were brave enough to live the lives we stole

                      
What a wonderful world this could be!

Segway

              

              

                     

       

Prechorus


Na, na, na, na, na, na


Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

                   
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na


Na, na, na, na, na, na


Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

                   
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Chorus

                          
When as you close your eyes for the big sleep


I hope you think of me, yeah


Na, na, na, na, na, na


Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

                   
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Verse

              
And if you go, I'll be gone

                                        
And you'll be left alone to live your life, as you please

                                       
But someday you'll agree that I was always meant for you

                                          
You were always meant for me and you will see

                
that you're impossible

              
You're impossible

              
You're impossible

              
You're impossible

Verse

                        
So, how many more examples until we break?
 
                         
So how many sacrifices must we make?

                           
Because we've all been there once before

                       
And it looks like we've returned once more

                        
So is this the beginning or the end?

                     
The last two soldiers on the battlefield


Survivors of the war

                                         
They aim at one another while their mothers beg the lord

                    
"If you're listening, I'm missing him

          
So somehow bring him home.

          
How did it come to this?"

               
So the soldiers lift their rifles


And they're aiming at the head

                                                   
They think of their first love before they take their final breath

                                     
And somewhere in the distance they hear something someone said:

           
"How did it come to this?"

Horn Segway

                

              

              

         

Outro Chorus

                          
When as you close your eyes for the big sleep


I hope you think of me, yeah

          
     
          

          


Na, na, na, na, na, na


Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

                   
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

                          
When as you close your eyes for the big sleep


I hope you think of me, yeah


Na, na, na, na, na, na


Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

                   
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na