Bedtime Stories

[Verse 1: Aimee Mann] Bedtime stories just got the hook Allegories that stay in the book So much was simply over In the little bit of time it took [Chorus: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo] So come on and trace me that arc So we won't have to wait in the dark So we won't have to wait in the place you lay waste to your spark [Verse 2: Ted Leo] All those secrets buried alive Just a prefix, bees in a hive And the one thought that you're leaving, is baby, only walls survive [Chorus: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo] So come on and trace me that arc So we won't have to wait in the dark So we won't have to wait in the Place you lay waste to your spark [Verse 3: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo] And now we know when someone owes, someone pays For lessons frozen in your gaze Impressing only that no one ever stays And now there's poetry and prose in your name It overflows the frame Trying to impose a theory on the game [Chorus: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo] So come on and trace me that arc So we won't have to wait in the dark So we won't have to wait for the song Of the revenant lark [Verse 3] And now we know when someone owes Someone pays For lessons frozen in your gaze Impressing only that no one ever stays And now there's poetry and prose in your name It overflows the frame Trying to impose a theory on the game Bedtime stories, before the end Tiresome worries, time's not your friend No thought is recovered From not a little writer's crook [Outro] So come on and trace me that arc So we won't have to wait in the dark So we won't have to wait in the dark