Theme & Variations: Now I Lay Me Down

1.

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take.





2.

Animal Warmth

huddled drunk and reeking
in each others arms

wet wool and sleeping bags

overflow the threshold
of our deco doorway

one step above the flood

barely out of the rain


3.

Animal Warmth

Now I lay me down to sleep
huddled drunk and reeking
in each others arms

I pray the Lord my soul to keep
wet wool and sleeping bags
overflow the threshold
of our deco doorway

If I die before I wake
one step above the flood

I pray the Lord my soul to take.


4.

Now I lay me down to sleep

Recline and rest

Soft as
cloud or night

A promise then perhaps.

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

I in hand with me

You

hold

This sparrow thought.

If I die before I wake

Gone
before
we are

awake
asleep.

I pray the Lord my soul to take.

We ask your hand
to always hold
the us we are with you.


5.

Recline and rest

Soft as
cloud or night

A promise then perhaps

I in hand with me

You

hold

This sparrow thought.

Gone
before
we are

awake
asleep

We ask your hand
to always hold
the us we are with you.



6.

Animal Warmth

Now I lay me down to sleep

recline and rest

huddled drunk and reeking
in each others arms

wet wool and sleeping bags
soft as cloud or night
overflow the threshold
of our deco doorway.

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

a promise then perhaps

I in hand with me

You
hold
this sparrow thought.

If I die before I wake

one step above the flood

gone
before
we are

awake
asleep.

I pray the Lord my soul to take

barely out of the rain
we  ask your hand
to always hold
the us we are with you.