Robyn Landis: Listen

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My friend and co-writer David Llewellyn said, "Here's something that's always bugged me. How can you lose sleep if you're not getting any sleep? How can you lose something you don't even have?" I said with satisfaction, the light bulb illuminating above my head, "I'm on this one."

Up all night for seven straight
Lord I know it's much too late
looks like [I'm] losing sleep over you

No book or pill or gin will soothe
the jagged edges of the truth
seems like [I'm] losing sleep over you

My eyes are too wide open
I'm staring into black
Questions drum in silence
and I hear and can't go back

But losing sleep's like losing you
You can't lose what you never had
"Losing sleep" makes no more sense
than you and I do
Losing sleep is just the same as losing you


Too many days I slept too long
closed my eyes to what was wrong
had to be asleep over you

To wake I'd have to take a look
at what you gave and what you took
so I just stayed asleep over you

Blinded in the glare of things
I knew but couldn't say
how else could I pretend you loved me
in the light of day

Now losing sleep's like losing you
You can't lose what you never had
"Losing sleep" makes no more sense
than you and I do
Losing sleep is just the same as losing you


I'm so tired but there are no more lullabies
to lull me off to slumber
and pass years on all those lies

And losing sleep's like losing you
You can't lose what you never had
"Losing sleep" makes no more sense
than you and I do
Losing sleep is just the same as losing you

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"Losing sleep" makes no more sense
than you and I do
Losing sleep is just the same as losing you