Keeping Me From Sleeping                           copyright 2013 Stan Lyness
up-tempo male vocal                                          |=130   C for me

INTRO                                                   (6m 2)(5) 1   (1 17)

  I had life figured out                                           4    5
  I had love under control and never had my heart stolen,          4   (2m 5)
but now I just think about                                         4    5
    why ever since we met, I been a total wreck.                   2    5
      I wasn't sure I'd call you; I didn't think you'd stay.       4    5
      I never planned on falling but I'm falling anyway,           6m   6m
    and now these daydreams haunt me, so piercing yet so sweet,    4    5
    the only dreams I got because you're keeping me from sleeping.(6m 2)(5)
                                                                   1   (1 17)

    It's a crime, it ain't right
 that it's me who's feeling wasted when you're the one who's racing
through my mind, through the night.
       I'm plenty sleepy but your memory keeps me up.
        By daylight I'm exhausted, dazed and half-alive
         a zombie at the office and distracted when I drive.
       I'm sliding into trouble, wide and high and deep,
       too tired for the struggle 'cause you're keeping me from sleeping.

Bridge:
          I gotta get free; I oughtta stop being           5    1
          obsessed with impetuous desire.                  5    1
          I gotta behave; I oughtta quit begging           5    5m
that you'll pour more fuel on the fire, make it burn,      2   (5 4)
     won't you turn up the heat, gotta keep stokin' hot,  (5 4)(5 4)
     never stop goin' strong - bring it on.               (5) 2   2   5  57

   Each thought has got you in it ever since we kissed,            4    5
    I'm loving every minute but I can't go on like this.           6m   6m
     My self-control is busted.  My will is getting weak.          4    5
     My judgment can't be trusted when you're keeping me ...      (6m 2)(5 6m)
        keeping me from sleeping.                                 (5)   1