While You Were Sleeping Chords

Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

 While youG were sleeping,C your babies grew G Am

 The starGs shinedC, and the shadows moved G Am

 And timeG fleCw, the pGhone rAmang

 There wasG a silencCe when the kitchen sang G Am

 Its Gsongs Ccompeted like kidsG for spAmace

 We Gstared for hours in oCur maker’s face G Am

 They gavGe us picks,C said don’t mind the sun G Am

 And go gGolCd and come back when you’re donGe Am

G CUh-oh . . . uGh-oAmh

Verse

CWhile Gyou were sCleeping, you tossed Gyou turned Am

You rolled your eyes as the world burned

The heavens fell, the earth quaked

I thought you must be, but you weren’t awake

No you were dreaming, you ignored the sun

You grew your power garden for your little ones

And you found brides for them on Christmas Eve

They hung young Cain from the Adam trees

-- And danced uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh

Chorus

AmWhile you were sleeping,E I tossed and I turned Am

 ‘Til I closed my eyes but Dmthe future burned G

 Through the planet turned a hairC grey F

 As I relived the day E

Third Verse:

CWhile Gyou were sCleeping, the money dGied Am

Machines were harmless and the Earth sighed

The wind, you swept sound

And gravity but my love around

The oceans rose, sang about decay

While the witches flew and the mermaids stayed

Full of dreams, you overslept

And keeping with the quiet through the walls I crept

And walked on tiptoes

Sent darkness swirling over all the kitchen

In the early morning

Uh-oh, uh-oh

Chorus

I’ll never catch up to you, who sleeps so sound

My yawns are useless, my heart beats too loud

But go to sleep, my mind’s too proud to bow out

Verse

While you were sleeping, the time changed

All your things were rearranged

Your vampire mirrors, face to face

They saw forever out into space

And found you dreaming in black and white

While it rained in all the colors of the night

Uh-oh, Uh-oh

Chorus

While I watched the TV’s memories

Of championships managed to seep, can it be?

My honey be-tween you an’ me

Verse

So I waited for the riddled sky

To be solved again by the sunrise

And I made a death soup for life

For my father’s ill widowed wife

Chorus

Did you have that strangest dream before you woke?

Because in God you had the butterfly stroke.

Did it escape you like some half-told joke

When you reached for your plume of smoke?

Verse

And it’ll haunt you my honey bee

Anyone, who’s anyone has that same dream

Where you’re falling, where you’re flying

And were you calling out, or were you dieing?

But thank God you’re up now, let’s stay this way

There’ll still be no more names and no more days

‘Cause when we’re dreaming, the babies grow

The sun shines and the shadows flow

Time flies and the phone rings

There is a silence when everybody tries to sing

Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. . .