By Dango Rose

As the daytime is approaching
Awake as I lay dreaming
With my clothes on
Asleep with the light on
Asleep with the light on

All my thoughts lay in a bundle
Next to a story left undone
A banjo untuned
African drum
Asleep with the light on
Asleep with the light on

Is that a cricket in the kitchen
Or is that a tune left unwritten
Was that you of whom I’m dreaming
Riding horses through the valleys of Virginia

Bareback in the briar
Soaked by the rain
Asleep with the light on
Asleep with the light on

You are gone now my dear departed
Broken shade, the broken-hearted
As I’m dreaming in the morning
Distant fields of distant yearning
Take me back to the river
Back through the valley
O’er the highest mountain
Asleep with the light on