I Know You Know - Charming Disaster

The ashtray on the windowsill

Fills with falling rain

The morning meets my eyes again

The things we never say

When we’re wide awake

I hear them echo through the day

Rattle around in my dreams why don’t you

Little bird, my turtledove

You’re walking in my sleep like there is

Something that you need to know

I know you know I know

I know you know I know

The sleeve your elbow went through

The holes you never patch

Your tattered rags in shades of black

Clothes don’t make the man

But I love that velvet coat

The ties I’ve fixed around your throat

Rattle around in my dreams why don’t you

Dirty dog, you billy goat

You’re walking in my sleep like there is

Something that you need to know

I know you know I know

I know you know I know

Maybe there’s a way

To ease my worried head

Prescription filled or fortune read

But no doctor fortune teller

Could treat me like you do

I go to bed and wait for you

Rattle around in my dreams why don’t you

Whisper things in secret code

You’re walking in my sleep like there is

Something that you need to know

I know you know I know

I know you know I know

Every night I close my eyes I see your face

Do I imagine you or is it you that waits?

Is this a conversation that’s so strange and sweet

Or does my memory play tricks on me?

Rattle around in my dreams why don’t you

Whisper things in secret code

You dirty dog, you little bird

You billy goat, my turtledove

You’re walking in my sleep like there is

Something that you need to know

I know you know I know

I know you know I know

You know I know you know

I know you know I know