Sleep - #chickasha #ninnekah #oklahoma

There’s a ghost in the whiskey sour tonight
Shaped like a woman’s laugh by neon lights
In Busan where the Sam Duk pepper steams
Meh-Kong Rum burns like half-remembered dreams
Daylight cracks the blinds like shattered glass
And every morning, grief is first to pass

*(Chorus)*
Give me sea with no shore in sight
Give me jazz from Bangkok’s balmy nights
Just one more Cuban cigar on a sun-soaked pier
One more dark woman whispering "please stay here"
But most of all, Lord, what I’d destroy
Is to sleep just once like I slept when I was a boy

*(Verse 2)*
This bed’s too wide, sheets too cold and clean
Like the club near Lum-pini where the sax screams
And the Sun-Tory sours bit like winter rain
Now I just count the ceiling’s water stains
The nightmares come like merchant ships at dawn
No land in sight… just rollin' on, and on, and on

*(Chorus)*
Give me sea with no shore in sight
Give me jazz from Bangkok’s steamy nights
Just one more Cuban cigar on a sun-soaked pier
One more dark woman whispering "please stay here"
But most of all, Lord, what I’d destroy
Is to sleep just once like I slept when I was a boy

*(Bridge)*
They say one day it won't be the first thing I know
When the rooster crows and the sun’s first glow
Just a second… like some half-forgotten tune
While I read ‘bout adventures beneath the moon
But tonight the pain’s a anchor, heavy and deep
And all I want… is one long, dreamless sleep

*(Outro Chorus)*
So give me sea with no shore in sight
Give me jazz from Bangkok’s hot nights
One more Cuban cigar on a sun-soaked pier
One last dark woman whispering "please stay here"
But trade it all, every memory and toy
Just to sleep… one night… like I slept when I was a boy...