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Sleeping and Waking Lyrics

Artist: Aimee Mann
Album: Welcome Home

*** Introduction:
||: C Bb F C Bb F :||

*** Verse 1:
C Bb F
Just for the record
C Bb F
you ought to know that I love you
C Bb F
cause the damage that you've done
C Bb F
I know you still could do
C Bb F
So fun time is over
C Bb F
and I guess it's enough
C Bb F
oh but just for the record
C Bb F
it was a little to rough

Dm Em
All that night when I looked for you
Dm Em
without a word to say
Dm Em
knowing that I was looking through
D7 Fma7
the longest night the longest day

*** Chorus:
C Dm Bb C Dm Bb C
Sleeping and waking is the hardest thing to do
Dm Bb C Dm Bb C
when you are taking every dream I had of you
C G F
Sleeping and waking

||: C Bb F C Bb F :|| 4x

*** Verse 2:
Tell me what love is or rather what you expected C Bb F C Bb F
because I've often wondered what you did not get C Bb F C Bb F
When all through the town I heard your heart beating wrong I C Bb F C Bb F
felt the sickness come on I knew that you were gone C Bb F C Bb F

So now I'm left with an empty bed Dm Em
what a place to stay Dm Em
saying things that were never said Dm Em
through the longest night, the longest day D7 Fma7

*** Chorus:
Sleeping and waking is the hardest thing to do C Dm Bb C Dm Bb
when you are taking every dream I had of you C Dm Bb C Dm Bb

*** Coda:
Sleeping and waking is the hardest thing to do C Dm Bb C Dm Bb
when you are taking every dream I had of you C Dm Bb C Dm Bb
Sleeping and waking C G F
sleeping and waking C G F
sleeping and waking C G F
makes the longest night D
the longest night F
the longest night D
the longest day F

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