Daysleeper - Live From John Peel Public Session On BBC Radio 1 / 1998

[Intro]
This is a little number you might have already heard
Well, I hope that you have, anyway

[Verse 1]
Receiving department, 3 A.M
Staff cuts have socked up the overage
Directives are posted, no callbacks, complaints
Everywhere is calm
Hong Kong is present, Taipei awakes
All talk of circadian rhythm

[Chorus]
I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache gray
Daysleeper
Daysleeper
Daysleeper

[Verse 2]
The bull and the bear are marking their territories
They're leading the blind with their international glories
I am the screen, the blinding light
I'm the screen, I work at night

[Chorus]
I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache gray
Don't wake me with so much
Daysleeper

[Bridge]
I cried the other night
I can't even say why
Fluorescent flat caffeine lights
It's furious balancing
I am the screen, the blinding light
I'm the screen, I work at night

[Chorus]
I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache gray
Don't wake me with so much
The ocean machine is set to nine
I'll squeeze into heaven and Valentine
My bed is pulling me, gravity
Daysleeper
Daysleeper
Daysleeper
Daysleeper
Daysleeper

[Outro]
So we landed last night, uh-, in a plane
Can you imagine, what that was like?
Sweaty hands
That was the pilot
We were screaming
50 mile-per-hour wind
Wait, is there a kilometer-per-hour wind?
Yeah, who cares...
What? Yeah
Anyway, we bounced twice, skidded off to the left, the guy had to brake so quickly that everything went flying forward
Uh, except me, because I was wearing my seatbelt
Being a conscientious, 90's-kinda hippy guy
This is a beautiful song, uh-, well, we haven't played it in almost seven days
We performed this in San Francisco last weekend with Neil Young playing guitar
But tonight, we have either a lap or a pedal steel, which one is it? Pedal?
I was gonna be at least half-right