Quiz:
Sleep, that sacred ritual...How many songs are there that engage in the cult of sleeping/dreaming, and that we feel that they uniquely address our own case?
Sleep, that sacred ritual...How many songs are there that engage in the cult of sleeping/dreaming, and that we feel that they uniquely address our own case?
When i wake up early in the morning
lift my head i'm still yawning
when i'm in the middle of a dream
stay in bed, float up stream
please don't wake me, no, don't shake me
leave me where I am, I am only sleeping
everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I dont mind, i think they are crazy
running everywhere at such speed
till they find there is no need...
The Beatles: "I'm only Sleeping", Revolver, 1966
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Smashing Pumpkins - In The Arms Of Sleep L
Sleep will not come to this tired body now
Peace will not come to this lonely heart
There are some things I'll live without
But I want you to know that I need you right now
I need you tonight...
Εεεετσι! It is one of the songs I had in mind, for obvious reasons ;)
Αλκίνοος 'Ταξίδι'
Λουλούδια και τραγούδια και τάματα/
σου φέρνω να στεγνώσεις τα κλάματα.
Πράσινους κήπους θ'απλώσω να ξαπλώσεις/
κι' αν λίγο με νιώσεις το γέλιο σου θα δω.
Κι'όσα σε πνίγουνε δάκρυα και όσες πίκρες/
στην θάλασσα ρίχτες το γέλιο σου να δω.
Στον ύπνο και στο ξύπνιο και στ' όνειρο/
σκοτάδι δίχως τέλος και όριο.
Μα εγώ θα ανάψω κεράκια τα όνειρά μου,
αγάπη δικιά μου στο φως τους να σε δω.
Δεν είναι ξεκάθαρο νανούρισμα, μα για μένα πάντα θα είναι..
On candystripe legs the spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
Suddenly!
A movement in the corner of the room!
And there is nothing I can do
When I realise with fright
That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!
Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
Creeps closer now
Closer to the foot of the bed
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more
For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"
And I feel like I'm being eaten
By a thousand million shivering furry holes
And I know that in the morning I will wake up
In the shivering cold
And the spiderman is always hungry...
(The Cure, Lullaby)
Υπάρχει και κάποιο άλλο που λέει:
I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink,
I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink.
I wonder should I get up and fix myself a drink.
No, no, no.
I'm so tired I don't know what to do.
I'm so tired my mind is set on you.
I wonder should I call you but I know what you'd do.
You'd say I'm putting you on.
But it's no joke, it's doing me harm.
You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
You know it's three weeks, I'm going insane.
You know I'd give you everything I've got
For a little peace of mind.
I'm so tired, I'm feeling so upset
Although I'm so tired I'll have another cigarette
And curse Sir Walter Raleigh.
He was such a stupid git.
[των ιδίων]
Receiving dept 3 a m
Staff cuts have socked up the overage
Directives are posted
No callbacks complaints
Everywhere is calm
Hong kong is present
Taipei awakes
All talk of circadian rhythm
I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache grey
Daysleeper
The bull and the bear are marking
Their territories
They’re leading the blind with
Their international glories
I’m the screen the blinding light
I’m the screen I work at night
I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache grey
Don’t wake me with so much
Daysleeper
I cried the other night
I can’t even say why
Fluorescent flat caffeine lights
Its furious balancing
I’m the screen the blinding light
I’m the screen I work at night
I see today
Don’t wake me with so much the
Ocean machine is set to 9
I’ll squeeze into heaven and valentine
My bed is pulling me
Gravity
Daysleeper daysleeper
Daysleeper daysleeper daysleeper
REM, Daysleeper
@ Pixina: Τόσα τραγούδια από τον εν λόγω κύριο που έχουνε να κάνουν με ύπνο και όνειρο...Υπέροχο κομματάκι!!
@ Dr Gonzo: Sleep and love again...another pattern that I like ;)
Dream Theater "Wait for sleep"
Standing by the window
Eyes upon the moon
Hoping that the memory
will leave her spirit soon
She shuts the doors and lights
And lays her body on the bed
Where images and words are
running deep
She has too much pride to pull
the sheets above her head
So quietly she lays and waits
for sleep
Une heure.
Deux heures,
Pas dormir,
Il ne faut pas dormir.
Trois heures,
Point... dormir.
Quatre heures,
Pour vivre heureux,
Vivons caches.
Cinq heures,
Vivons caches.
Six heures,
Effets non souhaites et genants.
Sept heures,
Gare a l'ataxie... Ah bon?
...
Quatre heures,
Les musees sont pornographiques.
Cinq heures,
Une vision pharmaceutique.
Six heures,
Mon ideal c'est d'aimer avec horreur.
Sept heures,
Un precipice entre vous et moi.
Huit heures,
Est-ce qu'on en voit jamais le bout,
"Non" repondent mes yeux.
Neuf heures,
Seulement quand on est au bout... Ah bon?
Dix heures,
Pas dormir, faut pas dormir.
Mylene Farmer "Effets Secondaires"
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