Josephine Sleeper Songtext
von Sabachthani

Sweet Josephine
Collapsed again to the wooden walls
And no one could hear
All the poems she read to him
Death isn′t known
Every splinter a different dream
Josephine never slept
She denied it all

In the night
She would rage against the heaven
Silently
Slide across the dust and rubble
Where he lived
Open doors like words are spoken
Still her fear
She has sealed his room forever


She had a love for death
It was the taste of it
In every single breath
Where he would sing a song to him
With many hours left
And countless sorrowed tears
She could not feel bereft
And still she lost it all to him

Always at war with night
That brought the walls too close
As when the days took flight
And trembling legs were still too strong
She could not weep for him
But touch him through the wall
He might be listening
And they would lay together
It's all the same to her

For she had waited much too longFrom
The book of penance and dedication

He bangs his head against the door
It′s night
But Josephine is never asleep
Silent feet move across the floor
He's listening
As she slides down next to him
Separated by two inches of wood
She's crying


Josephine is counting the days
She′s counting the hours

There was a crack in the bed
Where Josephine sleep
I hid away
And no one could see
What delicate games she would play there
And she would pretend
Those were his fingers that she felt
One final sigh
And they were dusted

All gone now
All her lust and love forgiven

Josephine
All around her own endeavor
She cast her sin
Down onto the floor
To feel his breath again
All the games that made
Josephine

There are no wings for her
Fingers grip
Here it shows

She sings a lullaby
He cannot hear
And throws her arms around
Dancing with her only lover
It′s what she cannot feel
That frightens her
The things she might reveal
Staring at the darkness of him

She sings a lullaby
He cannot hear
And throws her arms around
Dancing with her only lover
It's what she cannot feel
That frightens her
The things she might reveal
Staring at the darkness of him