Can I Sleep In Your Brain
Ezra Furman
Chords only taken from the 25/10/2015 performance at Le Point Ephémère, Paris:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDe-EZkexCk&feature=youtu.be
[Verse 1]
C Am Gm F
Can I sleep in your brain tonight, stranger?
C Am D G
Can I rest my bones in your head?
C Am Gm F
I won't make too much noise while I stay here
Am G F G C
I just need some kind of shelter
[Bridge 1]
Am
Anywhere I try to go
E
I'm still stuck in my own skull
F C G
And lately that's no kind of place to call home
Am
All the walls are falling down
E
Garbage lying all around
F C G
Is there maybe room in your temporal lobe?
[Verse 2]
C Am Gm F
Can I sleep in your brain tonight, stranger?
C Am D G
Can I spend one night on your mind?
C Am Gm F
I can't live with this pain with this anger
Am G F G C
And I need someplace else to go
[Verse 3]
C E
I wanna sleep in your brain
Am F
I wanna wake you up early
C E
I wanna make you black coffee if
A
You like. (Yeah.)
[Bridge 2]
Dm G
I'll do whatever's required of me
E Am
To have the roof of your brain
A#
Above me. I've got nowhere else I
G
Can stay tonight
C
Can I sleep in your brain? [x2]
[Scat refrain/Outro]
N.C
Can I sleep in your brain [x2]
Can I sleep in your—?
Can I— can I—
Can I sleep I your brain?
Can I— can I come over?
Can I sleep in your brain?
Can I come over?
Can I– can I sleep—?
Can I come over?
Oh, sleep in your brain
Can I– can I sleep—?
Can I come over?
Can I sleep in your brain?
Notes:
Chords not provided for the ending as it's all just sung over a sax solo in the key of C
Although the titles of each section may not be correct, I've tried to accurately describe the song structure.
Feedback Appriciated.