"Mrs Sleep and the Dream River" genre: Folk
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	This is a slow, sensual song accompanied by violin that describes being tired or feverish and the hope of sleep to take away the pain.
	MP3.com CD: Decalogue - buy it! CD: Decalogue   Label: CD on Demand Credits: Tommy Beavitt, vocals and guitar; Alan Beavitt, violin
	Story Behind the Song I wrote this one on some kind of fever. Maybe I had been up to some adventures and was returning home, I cant clearly remember. The metaphor is fairly obvious - we can get trapped in a waking nightmare and, for unfortunate insomniacs, sleep is the only balm. Like being stuck on the wrong side of a river in a time of war. I characterised this as female because sleep for me is associated with woman. People say they sleep with each other as an euphemism for having sex, but actually the sleep itself can be more intimate than the act of love. How does it feel to wake up next to a prostitute? Lyrics Oh Mrs Sleep won't you ferry me across the Dream River My head's full of nothing, my stomach's on fire I've been running through lands that would make your heart shiver Through deserts and jungles and sticky quagmire Well I don't know what happened, my mind seemed to falter I swore at my lover and I cursed at my friends There's some evil on these shores, lead my down by the halter To the banks lined with blossom where my journey ends I've been running from demons that sprang from the desert There've been shapes in the darkness too wierd to describe Oh won't you have pity, I'm close to destruction Take me 'cross the Dream River to the rest of my tribe When I came to these shores I saw instant salvation I'd swim but I'm spent and I'd surely expire Take your raft made of willow from the old landing station And we'll drift through the night to the songs of the choir Oh Mrs Sleep won't you take me and be my dream giver I've been standing on my own feet for weary hours long Let me forget who I am while we cross the Dream River Take my head in your lap, let me feel I belong

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