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The first single from "Talk on Corners" released in September 1997. A top-ten single in Ireland which also reached number 1 in Spain.

Only When I Sleep
The Corrs, Oliver Leiber, Paul Peterson, John Shanks


You're only just a dreamboat
Sailing in my head
You swim my secret oceans
Of coral blue and red
Your smell is incense burning
Your touch is silken yet
It reaches through my skin
And moving from within
It clutches at my breast

But it's only when I sleep
See you in my dreams
You got me spinning round and round
Turning upside-down
But I only hear you breathe

Somewhere in my sleep
Got me spinning round and round
Turning upside-down
But its only when I sleep

And when I wake from slumber
Your shadow's disappear
Your breath is just a sea mist
Surrounding my body
I'm workin' through the daytime
But when it's time to rest
I'm lying in my bed
Listening to my breath
Falling from the edge

But it's only when I sleep
See you in my dreams, - dreams -
You got me spinning round and round
Turning upside-down
But I only hear you breathe
Somewhere in my sleep, - in my sleep -
Got me spinning round and round
Turning upside-down
But its only when I sleep
It's only when I sleep

Up to the sky
Where angels fly
I'll never die
Hawaiian High
In bed I lie
No need to cry
My sleeping cry
Hawaiian High

It's reaching through my skin
Movin' from within
And clutches at my breasts

But it's only when I sleep
See you in my dreams, - dreams -
You got me spinning round and round
Turning upside-down
But I only hear you breathe

In bed I lie
No need to cry
My sleeping cry
Hawaiian High

But it's only when I sleep
Got me spinning round and round
- Turning upside-down -

Up to the sky
Where angels fly
I'll never die
Hawaiian High
But it's only when I sleep


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