Sleeping Dogs

[Verse 1]

Sinking like a deadweight in a hotel swimming pool

You left the house, and took the car, and left a note in our room

When you vanish, I stay like a child by the window

Waiting for you to come in and swear that you changed

[Pre-Chorus]

Days fade through to night, take off my clothes

Bodies side by side

Now the bedsheets feel like snow

[Chorus]

"Oh, God, I think it's fatal"

We scream across the table

Why turn the water into fire when you're the heart I cradle?

The stitches come undone

I'm lying bare, already torn

But, this time

I won't let the sleeping dogs lie

[Verse 2]

It's giving me a migraine (It's giving me a migraine)

'Cause you're twisting round my head

Like an acrobat, you're spinning further outta control

Don't think you're malicious (Don't think you're malicious)

Think it's just the way that you're wired

But I'm dying to fix you (I'm not qualified)

[Pre-Chorus]

Days fade through to night, take off my clothes

Bodies side by side

Now the bedsheets feel like snow

[Chorus]

"Oh, God, I think it's fatal"

We scream across the table

Why turn the water into fire when you're the heart I cradle?

The stitches come undone

I'm lying bare, already torn

But, this time

I won't let the sleeping dogs lie, lie

[Bridge]

Since when did bullets shoot from the mouth of an angel?

I'm bleeding out, you're in hysterics, we're unstable

Shells on the floor, neighbours listening through the walls

And, if she had to pick a side, I'm always nicer when she calls

Time and again, I hold on to you so tight

You pierce the skin, now my knuckles burning white

I thought we had it to a science, I thought we had it all

Turns out

I won't let the sleeping dogs lie

[Chorus]

"Oh, God, I think it's fatal"

We scream across the table

Why turn the water into fire when you're the heart I cradle?

The stitches come undone

I'm lying bare, already torn

But this time

I won't let the sleeping dogs—

"Oh, God, I think it's fatal"

We scream across the table

Why turn the water into fire when you're the heart I cradle?

The stitches come undone

Lying bear, already torn

But this time

I won't let the sleeping dogs lie