Are You Awake - NENA

A quarter after midnight

I’m half-past out of reason

Our bodies still entwined from making love

While you’re asleep I tell you what I’m thinking of

In our apartment all the rooms

Have taken on your personality

The living room has overshadowed me

I feel as restless as these bedroom sheets

All my inhibitions disappear

Suddenly the words escape

And I make-believe you’re listening

I say: «Baby, are you awake?»

My concentration flutters

Like a candle’s temperamental flame

Can’t talk to you, can’t tell you

Can’t share this little hell with you

You’re slipping through my fingers

I’m falling from your arm

And when I whisper all the secrets that I keep

You probably think I’m talking in my sleep

All my inhibitions disappear

Suddenly the words escape

And I make-believe you’re listening

I say: «Baby, are you awake?»

Baby, are you awake?

You reach for me and call my name

And softly breathe against my skin

Your voice is echoing familiar sentences

Ohh, you’ve been listening to every word I said

All my inhibitions disappear

Suddenly the words escape

And I make-believe you’re listening

I say: «Baby, are you awake?»

All my inhibitions disappear

Suddenly the words escape

And I make-believe you’re listening

I say: «Baby, are you awake?»