| Burn the midnight lamp Down until the dawn,
 I'll keep watch until I'm sure your coming home.
 
 Shadows play and flicker on the bedroom wall
 They turn into a bad dream overnight,
 Something could be terribly wrong.
 
 Don't be careless love,
 Don't be careless love,
 Don't be, don't be careless.
 
 In my dream you're running nowhere
 Every step you've taken turns to glue,
 Walking down a spiral staircase
 Failing through, failing through,
 
 Don't be careless love,
 Be careless love.
 
 The lamp burns down and out
 I'm getting pretty tired of this,
 I feel so bad something might be going amiss,
 
 I won't be there so look out for yourself
 You're getting in deep whatever you do,
 Don't let me go back to sleep,
 
 Don't be careless love,
 Don't be careless love,
 Don't be, don't be careless.
 
 Saw your face in the morning paper,
 Saw your body rolled up in a rug
 Chopped up into two little pieces
 By some thug,
 
 Don't be careless love,
 Be careless love.
 But in the morning light
 When I wake up again
 You're by my side and that's the way it's always been,
 But in the dark your mind plays funny tricks on you,
 Your mind plays funny tricks on you,
 Your mind plays funny tricks on you,
 Don't be careless love.
 
 
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