From the recording A Little Life
This a tender song about death and love.
Lyrics
IN YOUR SLEEP
Maybe your heart will stop beating
Maybe you won’t catch your breath
Maybe disease will waste you
Until there’s nothing left
A hair dryer could fall in your bathtub
Maybe you’ll eat something wrong
Maybe a drunken driver gonna hit you head on
Nobody knows how they’re gonna go
The what where and how of it
But if I could I’d wish for this
I hope you die in your sleep – at 103
Sailing into your favorite dream
And since I couldn’t bear a life without you
I hope that I die in my sleep at 102
Maybe you’ll fall of a cruise shop
Maybe your plane will go down
I know this stuff is
All so uncomfortable to talk about
Nobody knows how they’re gonna go
The what when why and how of it
But if I could I’d wish for this
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I know you don’t believe in heaven
But you know I do
And if one of us is wrong
I really hope it’s you
I don’t want to believe
That we could end
Repeat Chorus