When You Sleep
Cake
Prolonging The Magic (1998)

when you sleep where do your fingers go?
what do your fingers know
what do your fingers show
where do your fingers go
when you sleep
do they tremble on the edge of the bed?
or do you fold them neatly by your head?
do they clench like claws against your own skin
when you're living your day all over again?
when you sleep
when you sleep where do your fingers go?
what do your fingers know?
what do your fingers show?
where do your fingers go? yeah

do they play guitar in a latin bar?
are they strangers or lovers
do they drive your car?
are they swimming submissively
sex acts of life?
or just cutting through jello with a very sharp knife?

now Zeus was a womanizer
always on the make
but Hera usually punished
her that zeus was one to take

when you sleep where do your fingers go?

are they pulling out weeds
from the dusty soil?
but then never rewarded with the
fruits of their toil
are they scratching their nails
on the chalkboards of death
only seeking attention
when everyone in the room has left?

when you sleep
when you sleep where do your fingers go?
what do your fingers know?
what do your fingers show?
where do your fingers go?
when you sleep
do they tremble on the edge of the bed
or do you fold them neatly by your head?