Mean Sleep

[Verse 1: Lenny Kravitz]

What can we scrape together

With just the flesh as evidence?

Handfuls of hate

And the bittersweet ambivalence

[Pre-Chorus: Lenny Kravitz & Cree Summer, Lenny Kravitz]

'Cause I am brushin' cobwebs

And I'm foldin' into myself

Who will find me under this mean sleep?

[Chorus: Cree Summer, Lenny Kravitz, & Both]

How could the clouds tease us into thinkin' it might rain?

How could the need deceive us into thinkin' things might change?

I had a mean, mean sleep over you

And it hurts, hurts comin' back to life

[Verse 2: Lenny Kravitz]

You could burn a thousand days

And I would need no other light

You could die a thousand ways

And I'd still love you back to life

[Pre-Chorus: Lenny Kravitz & Cree Summer, Lenny Kravitz]

But my need's risin' angry

And my loneliness like quicksand

Who will find me under this mean sleep?

[Chorus: Cree Summer, Lenny Kravitz, & Both]

How could the clouds tease us into thinkin' it might rain?

How could the need deceive us into thinkin' things might change?

I had a mean, mean sleep over you

And it hurts, hurts comin' back to life

I had a mean, mean sleep over you

And it hurts, hurts comin' back to life

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge: Lenny Kravitz & Cree Summer, Lenny Kravitz]

I am lost to the longing

I am moulded by the memory

Had to shut down half my mind

Just to still the space you left behind

[Pre-Chorus: Lenny Kravitz & Cree Summer, Lenny Kravitz]

'Cause I am brushin' cobwebs

And I'm foldin' into myself

Who will find me under this mean sleep?

[Chorus: Cree Summer, Lenny Kravitz, & Both]

How could the clouds tease us into thinkin' it might rain?

How could the need deceive us into thinkin' things might change?

I had a mean, mean sleep over you

And it hurts, hurts comin' back to life (Comin' back to life; I had a mean sleep)

I had a mean, mean sleep over you (I had a mean sleep; I had a mean sleep)

And it hurts, hurts comin' back to life (Comin' back to life; comin' back to life)

I had a mean, mean sleep over you (I had a mean sleep)

And it hurts, hurts comin' back to life (Comin' back to life, yeah; comin' back to life)

I had a mean, mean sleep over you (Oh, yeah; I had a mean sleep)

And it hurts, hurts comin' back to life (Comin' back to life)

I had a mean, mean sleep over you (I had a mean sleep)

And it hurts, hurts comin' back to life (Comin' back to life; comin' back to life)

I had a mean, mean sleep over you (I had a mean sleep)