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