Urthboy - The big sleep lyrics

The pa**age of a thousand sunrises came and went with calm resolve And like clockwork they shone on The one that we'd forgot Her truth entrenched by eight decades in a white flag of bitter wisdom Leavin' her front door with no more than the odd cursory knock A cla**ic two story terrace On a central sloping street Affluent couples would cast their eyes as they looked to buy in Sydney's east Three-quarter eight-hundred at least But this lady wasn't selling in fact No one ever saw her But that's the city for ya She was there with a low profile Never made a sound it ain't her style At her age didn't want no one to rile up till she invited nobody else to her island When the sirens drowned out the silence quietly her pension cheques kept arriving They cut her telephone line she wasn't dialing k**ed the electricity the damn wiring Operator said they could not get through on the phone For all they care there ain't nobody at home Little do they know that she on her own Disconnection notes come and they come and they go And the junk mail collected in the letter box Constant papers stuck together squashed The neighbors wonder why it never stops Cause she never answered if they ever knocked Oh my love You've been sleeping so long In a world where you don't belong Its time to get you back home Where the sun meets the sky you'll be resting tonight Gotta let it go Gotta let it get away back home Gotta let it go Gotta let it go Gotta let it get away back home And as real as she was maybe she was just somebody I dreamt Like her presence was pa**ing the brim Of all the people that she had never met Wondered if it could've happened, could it happen again The pa**age of a thousand sunsets had walked her to the end Her signal lost strength and she fell right out of range The truth sealed in eight decades when she closed her door on the world And all that lonely sorrow set free and washed away And that terrace on the sloping street did not change Real estate agents still cast their eyes as they drove past in cars they leased Three-quarter eight-hundred at least and they say Did ya hear the story Apparently the neighbors they never saw her, but that's the city for ya