[Verse 1]
Cracks rack the windows
Howls hold the floor
Rains rot the rafters
And do you just have to snore?
It's a most inclement climate
For the season of the night
Is that mouse playing football, oh
I thought they didn't like the light?

[Chorus]
And the dawn comes sneaking up
When it thinks I'm not looking
I am starting to grieve, man
I used to know but now I believe, man
They tell me sleep is a gas
And if I want to lay down
But I'm sorry I woke you
I mean I've got the no sleep blues

[Verse 2]
There's mayhem in this mansion
Since the cows were coming home
With delirium no sleepum
In a cloud of nylon foam
But release scours the outhouse
And a hard rain sears the sky
But if you let the pigs decide it
They will put you in the sty
[Chorus]
And the dawn comes sneaking up
When it thinks I'm not looking;
I am starting to grieve, man
I used to know but now I believe, man
They tell me sleep is a gas
And if I want to lay down
But I'm sorry I woke you
I mean I've got the no sleep blues

[Verse 3]
I think I'll get a picture
And I think I'll put it on a nail
I think I'll get another one
And put it in a pail
But the pail got so rusty
I called it red, red, red for fun
And I laughed like a leaver
Till you ought to seen it run

[Chorus]
And the dawn comes sneaking up
When it thinks I'm not looking
I am starting to grieve, man
I used to know but now I believe, man
They tell me sleep is a gas
And if I want to lay down
But I'm sorry I woke you
I mean I've got the no sleep blues
[Verse 4]
The size of the future
Declared itself no part
Aloof like a Sultan
In the autumn of your heart
But the heart got so hearty
That it pulled for the shore
And the sailors fired a big salute
And it made my ears quite sore

[Chorus]
And the dawn was sneaking up
When it thinks I'm not looking
I am starting to grieve, man
I used to know but now I believe, man
They tell me sleep is a gas
And I want to lay down
But I'm sorry I woke you
I mean I've got the no sleep blues

[Verse 5]
I mixed stones and water
Just to see what it would do
And the water it got stoney
And the stones got watery too
So I mixed my feet with water
Just to see what could be seen
And the water it got dirty
And the feet they got quite clean
[Chorus]
And the dawn comes sneaking up
When it thinks I'm not looking;
I am starting to grieve, man
I used to know but now I believe, man
They tell me sleep is a gas
And if I want to lay down
But I'm sorry I woke you
I mean I've got the no sleep blues