I bet you think you hate that muzak in your ears Three men on the run Sgt. Pepper confirmed all your fears All the crazy fans kept screaming his name Jesus had stopped that all in vain His face still remains As the applause should now start to sear The one only musician Billy Shears
Well how do you sleep at night Oh Yoko how do you stand beside As he weeps in his derisive stride Your luck he hasn’t beaten your pride
You better keep it in your head You can’t compete with Shears since you sing like the dead The folks who told us Paul had sunk like lead John was the balloon and with a pin ***** he’d lose his head Too bad he never told you that your art was only good in bed
Oh how do you sleep at night Knowing that pretty Paul has died Oh I wonder how young Julian felt tight When you couldn’t keep the bed bugs out, right And when John left the two You two purist virgins didn’t even have a fight
Well if Sgt. Pepper took him by surprise Billy had still found a way to rise You just had to ram it in his size When you heard Band on the Run you knew it wouldn’t fade Imagine all the tears that had been shed When you made those two the critics from the first left you in the shade Since the only mistake you made was in your head
Oh how do you sleep at night Knowing that Billy’s took your wife I don’t mean Yoko I mean the night But you millionaire you still fight for your own rights Whilst after Jesus you learned to scorn at the raucous sight Keeping peace in your heart and peace in your mind sending peace afterwards with the tide
Paul McCartney is Billy Shears. If you've heard of the hoax that was popular before Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the album. This song parodies How Do You Sleep? by John Lennon. How he and Yoko Ono derided Paul. This poem considers his death a possibility asserts guilt on the other Beatles and of course Yoko Ono.