As the daytime is approaching,
Awake as I lay dreaming
With my clothes off,
Asleep with the light on
Asleep with the light on

All my thoughts lay in a bundle
Next to a story left undone
Banjo untuned, African drum
Asleep with the light on
Asleep with the light on

Is that a cricket in the kitchen?
Is that a tune left unwritten?
Was that you of whom I'm dreaming,
Riding horses through the valleys of Virginia?

Bed back in the briar
Soaked by the rain
Asleep with the light on,
Asleep with the light on

You are gone now, my dear departed
Broken shapes of broken hearted
As I'm dreaming in the morning
Distant fields of distant yearning

Take me back to the river,
Back to the valley,
Or the highest mountain
Asleep with the light on

Asleep with the light on