Sleepwalk - John Cooper Clarke

I can wriggle out of arrangements

You can’t pin me down

I tend to dodge engagements

I’ll see you around

Am I ok?

Not really, no

I seem to stop and start

Anything I can do let me know

I think I’ll sleepwalk out of my heart

Sleepwalk in the daytime

Access to all fours

Sleepwalk in a straight line

Leading out of the door

Shop through city on a world of eyes

Marvelously dead

These friends of mine need exercise

They sleepwalk instead

No guardian angle intercepts the

Sleepwalkin' kid

Who sleepwalks the fractured steps

To the sleepwalking skids

The way the private eye goes

About his ancient art

I can do it with me eyes closed

Sleepwalk out of my heart

Stop, look, listen to the zombie

The hoochie coochie blues

Black slacks and a crombie

Gucci shoes

A psycho stud and his steady girl

Are heading right this way

When all the footsteps in the world

Sleepwalk away

A victim of ambition

Loitering with intent

The human condition

But who knows what percent

Goodbye from me till now

I never really care

Sleepwalk anyhow

Anywhere

Sleepwalk, talk

Faster and faster

One of these talking birds

Sleepwalk away from disasters

Like they never occured

Too much devotion

Keeps me apart

Sleepwalk in slow motion

Out of my heart

In the creepy zilch of subways

The sub pedestrian plod

Sleepwalk on Sunday

Beneath the domes of God

Such a hazardous pastime

I’m gonna be smart

Sleepwalk for the last time

Out of my heart

Sleepwalk on duty

See myself in a pool

A sleepwalking cutie

Sleepwalking fool

Stuck in the afternoon

They do go on

When normal service is resumed

I’ll be sleepwalking young