This empty old house seems smaller now 
Where our children grew and scuffed across these wooden floors
Sometimes I still hear an echo from small voices in the summer air
Everything echoes (everything echoes)
in an empty old house you know
Think I’ll take it with me when I go

You were so young in your white dress 
The old women scoffed, saying. “It will never last.”
Remember how drunk I got before passing out?
Oh, my love, you were so mad, but it never showed
Think I’ll take it with me when I go 
Think I’ll take it with me when I go 
Think I’ll take it with me 

Time clicks away the time it takes to create a memory 
Young hands become old, but love is what you keep
Even when you sleep, even when you sleep.
Time clicks away a year into a lifetime of memories
In my heart is a memory of you I still keep
Even when I sleep, even when I sleep 

There is a woman in a picture frame hanging on the wall
Of a new old house across town, but it’s really not too far
She is cooking dinner, or maybe washing clothes 
She moves a little slower now, but now we all move slow
Think I’ll take it with me when I go 
Think I’ll take it with me when I go 
Think I’ll take it with me when I go 

Time clicks away a year into a lifetime of memories
In my heart is a memory of you I still keep
Even when I sleep, even when I sleep 
Time clicks away a year 
In my heart is a memory of you I still keep

Even When I Sleep (New version - Lyrics in description)

Maybe there’s an end to everything
Maybe life is built that way
When you held me in the darkness
Really thought you were going to stay

Sitting across the kitchen table 
with no words to find 
I see the steam rise from your coffee
you've already made up your mind

Nothing so strong 
as a man who has already made up his mind

Thing is
Tears fall
Won’t be able
To hear me if I call
Thing is
Love ends
Really wish when it did
We could have stayed friends

Life is cold when you age
Life is big and time gets away
Seems the more I think of you
The less I remember those days

Night is colder here without you
empty arms are all I find 
this bed is too big to sleep in 
without a man who's made up his mind

Nothing so strong 
as a man who has already made up his mind

Thing is
Tears fall
Won’t be able
To hear me if I call
Thing is
Love ends
Really wish when it did
We could have stayed friends

Thing is
We were young
Truly, my love I thought
I was the only one
Thing is
Time heals
Some of it comes back
And I remember how it feels

Thing is
Tears fall
Life moves on
Love is over and all
Thing is
Time flies
Love born a time ago
Just will up and die
Thing is
We were young
In the end you must have thought
You were the only one
Thing is …

Thing Is (Lyrics In Description)

Used to share everything with you.
It’s what I thought love was for.
The two of us together as one,
but I don't come around anymore.
No I don't come around anymore.

We used to fight some real mean fights,
you'd end up slamming the door.
Now you've shut it on my heart
and I don't come around anymore.
No I don't come around anymore.

We used to fight some real mean fights,
you'd end up slamming the door.
Now you've shut it on my heart
and I don't come around anymore.
No I don't come around anymore.

Don't come around to see your smile,
don't come around its true
Now our hearts are as distant as the miles,
and I don't know love and I don't know you.

Used to think you'd always be mine,
to have, to love and adore.
Now you're only someone I used to know, 
since I don't come around anymore.
No I don't come around anymore.

Don't come around to see your smile,
don't come around its true.
Now our hearts are as distant as the miles,
and I don't know love and I don't know you.

Used to think you'd always be mine,
to have, to love and adore.
Now you're only someone I used to know, 
since I don't come around anymore.
No I don't come around anymore.

Don't come around to see your smile,
don't come around its true.
Now our hearts are as distant as the miles,
and I don't know love and I don't know you.

I Don't Come Around Anymore (Lyrics In Description)

Much appreciation to my uncle for allowing me to adapt his beautiful poem "Perfectly Flawed" (below) into this song.

Some might say I’m damaged goods
But I am perfectly flawed
My scars are beautiful reminders
Of where my life has been 
I look back in awe
At how life has shaped me
I’ve been cleansed by floods
And forged by fires
Felt the emptiness of nothingness
And the excesses of desires

There is nothing new in these words
You’ve heard them all before
They’re cliché because they’re true
Is my glass half empty or half full
I’m tempted to say it’s overflowing
Or an empty vessel waiting to be used
Sometimes I’m confused by living
Thinking that it’s over or just begun
One moment crying the next amused

**** by Carlton Carr (Copyright 2021) *****

Even When I Sleep (New version - Lyrics in description)

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