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lyrics

Closet full of colors and you dress in the sad light of it
Every single morning noon and night of it
And dream a dream where you take all the clothes outside
Light up the sky so bright it keeps the sleepiest people wide awake all night.

Chimney and bikini tops,
a banquet of tranquilizers,
’Lectric fans to smother all the noise outside
My window’s open wide
but yours is locked up tight
And painted shut
so stupid birds don’t keep you awake all night.

Been through the looking glass
and out the other side
And soon you start to dream the kind of dreams you only dream at night
With a lullaby,
you’re tucked inside,
where you can hide
Flying with your eyes closed.


Closet deep, the colors run,
the all-cotton sheets are piled high
Drifting like an angel when you close your eyes
And dream a dream where you take all the clothes outside
Light up the sky so bright it keeps the sleepiest up all night.

Been through the looking glass
and out the other side
And soon you start to dream the kind of dreams you only dream at night
With a lullaby, you’re tucked inside,
where you can hide
Flying with your eyes closed.

Closet deep, the colors run,
the all-cotton sheets are piled high
Drifting like an angel when you close your eyes
And dream a dream where you take all the clothes outside
Light up the sky so bright it keeps the sleepiest up all night.

Light up the sky so bright it keeps the sleepiest up all night.

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from Harlem Hayride, released July 19, 2013
@ 2013 Karl Straub, Clever Bits Music (BMI)

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Karl Straub Alexandria, Virginia

KARL STRAUB writes music the way birds build nests, throwing together something sturdy from whatever detritus is lying around. Bubblegum pop, Charlie Parker, Merle Haggard and Bob Wills, Rodgers & Hart, psych fuzz, the Dolls and Velvet Underground, etc.
Straub basically uses two approaches when he writes lyrics— storytelling and impressionism.
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