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Song title:      Why Are We Sleeping
Original Album:  The Soft Machine

Words and Music by Kevin Ayers
Copyright © 1968 ABC Probe Records
Published By 

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:

[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x4]

Guitar Figure 1

  E               B                E               A       B
|-7---------------7--------------|-7---------------5-------7------|
|-9---------------7--------------|-9---------------5-------7------|
|-9---------------8--------------|-9---------------6-------8------|
|-9---------------9--------------|-9---------------7-------9------|
|-7---------------9--------------|-7---------------7-------9------|
|-0---------------7--------------|-0---------------5-------7------|
|                                                                 |
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-7------------------------------|-7------------------------------|
|-----------------7--------------|-----------------5-------7------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


VERSE:
[Guitar Figure 1]
It begins with a blessing and it ends with a curse,

[Guitar Figure 1]
Making life easy by making it worse

[Guitar Figure 1]
My mask is my master, the trumpeter weeps

[Guitar Figure 1]
But his voice is so weak, as he speaks from his sleep

Saying...


CHORUS:
E    G    A      E          G   E
Why, why, why... Why are we sleeping?


VERSE:
People are watching, people who stare,
Waiting for something that's already there
"Tomorrow I'll find it", the trumpeter screams
And remembers he's hungry, and drowns in his dreams

Saying:


CHORUS:
Why, why, why... Why are we sleeping?


VERSE:
My head is a nightclub with glasses and wine
The customers dancing or just making time
While Daevid is cursing, the customers scream
Now everyone's shouting, "Get out of my dream!"

Saying:


CHORUS:
Why, why, why... Why are we sleeping?