Sure, I can close my eyes
 It doesn’t take that much
 But I can’t fall asleep
 This has been going on for years now
 Seems there’s no end-point envisioned
 & God knows why

 & God knows I’ve tried everything
 Wives, girlfriends, booze & pills
 Shrinks & preachers & everything 
 In the end nothing could calm me down
 Or lull me to sleep
 & God knows why

 I tried every sleazy adult theatre marquee
 Every neon-lit porno-video parlour
 Still I could get no sleep
 That’s when you saw me
 headed for some secret sidewalk romance
 Or [bad word] in crossroads bars
 cheeks flushed with drink It was quick down the hatch
 no pause to think

 Yeah, I tried everything
 Pedestrian petticoat upliftings, lipstick red seconals
 Mescaline, things they use on racehorses
 Still I could get no sleep
 & That’s when they found old Marylou
 & Extracted someone else’s panties from her throat
 While I lay in bed & slept the sleep of kings
 The night she died, died, died-deedle-died

 This town wasn’t ready
 For these bizarre murder sprees
 Trimming local family trees

 There’s nothing like that smell
 To take off to the land of Nod
 Breathe in, breathe out & sleep
 I love their impatient lips
 As they swallow the panties of last night’s prey
 Along with their pride
 As they die, die-deedle-die

 Her screams, my lullaby
 Her slip against my nostrils
 Slipping into dreamland
 Now they’re buried in their tomb
 For the smell of their womb, so to speak
 Breathe in, breathe out & sleep

 & It feels so good to close my eyes
 & To fall asleep
 Slipping into dreamland
 With a pocket full of rye
 Such a sweet & gentle sleep…