More songs by Passion Pit
Description
Composer, Lyricist, Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer, Recording Engineer: Michael Angelakos
Composer, Lyricist: Mary O'Hara
Engineer: Ian Hultquist
Mastering Engineer: Paul Gold
Lyrics and translation
Original
And you said it was like fire around the brim.
Burning soft and burning thin, the burning rim.
Like stars burning holes right through the dark. Flicking firelight so hot into my eyes.
You were one inch from the edge of this bed.
I dragged you back, you sleepy head.
Sleepy head.
They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst.
With all the lions and all the might and all their thirst.
They crouched about you like some thoughts who went thin. Against the walls, against your rules, against your skin.
My fear crept down to the floor and out through the doors.
Of your eyes, but gone to skies like a sleepy head.
Sleepy head.
Oh.
Hey, hey, hey, yeah.
Hey, hey.
English translation
And you said it was like fire around the brim.
Burning soft and burning thin, the burning rim.
Like stars burning holes right through the dark. Flicking firelight so hot into my eyes.
You were one inch from the edge of this bed.
I dragged you back, you sleepy head.
Sleepy head.
They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst.
With all the lions and all the might and all their thirst.
They crouched about you like some thoughts who went thin. Against the walls, against your rules, against your skin.
My fear crept down to the floor and out through the doors.
Of your eyes, but gone to skies like a sleepy head.
Sleepy head.
Oh.
Hey, hey, hey, yeah.
Hey, hey.