The Girl Who Slept for Scotland by The Waterboys Lyric and Guitar Chord

I tried to sleep upon my back so I could hold her all night long as in my
Arms she slept, alas, but no I couldn’t
And when daybreak came and found her at the far side of the bed I tried to
Wake her, tried to stir her, but she wouldn’t
 
In her fug she lay like someone dead
And even when I’d tug her head and press and nip and agitate and shake her
Or call her name or whisper it against her ear,
My breath warm, there were no words in this universe would wake her
 
The girl who slept for Scotland
The girl who slept for Scotland
The girl who slept for Scotland
 
It took me time to comprehend this state of play extended unto
All her working, waking, shaking hours
For when she finally woke, deep in the day still she did sleepwalk
Like a hollow ghost a-float in haunted towers
 
And though she heard she didn’t see and though she saw she didn’t hear,
Attending only to what seemed precise and kind
For she was settled in her dream, a shopping list of small illusions,
Pretty stories that she told her drowsy mind
 
The girl who slept for Scotland
The girl who slept for Scotland
The girl who slept for Scotland
 
Yet I remember a day by a river wild
When she clung to me hard like a darling child
And a night in the sheets of a Dublin bed
When she moaned like a woman and gave sweet head
 
When we sang in tongues together and our synchronised guitars
Played music to the rafters made love among the stars
And our bodies beat like light in love’s beautiful embrace
As her tiny kisses burst like popping suns around my face
 
But then drift, recline, collapse, the lights went out, she fell asleep again
Before my kiss-wet face was even dry
I need another haircut she’d say, talking in her sleep, the sleep-motes
Gathered in the dust-bowls of her eye
She teetered down the road apiece, she and her man, from dozy bedsit land
To junkshop, with her sleeping clothes in sacks
And when I’d gone she teetered down the road again, yawning as she went,
And went and brought the bloody damn things back
 
The girl who slept for Scotland
The girl who slept for Scotland
The girl who slept for Scotland