Difference between revisions of "Sleep (Theme)"

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Songs about sleeping and related subjects.

Central theme

• AKA Driver - NyQuil
• Am I Awake? - The side effects of lack of sleep
• Ant
• Bed Bed Bed
• Birdhouse In Your Soul - Sung from the perspective of a nightlight
• Daylight - "So here we are / Awake and dreaming"
• Got Getting Up So Down - "...I can do it in my sleep"
• Good To Be Alive - Takes place immediately after the narrator wakes up
• Goodnight My Friends
• I Can't Remember The Dream
• I Slept With This Thing All The Way Back From Baltimore
• Idaho - While on LSD, the narrator stays up all night for fear of sleep.
• Lazyhead And Sleepybones
• Long White Beard
• Lullaby To Nightmares
• Mr. Mischief Night - The titular character spies on a sleeping victim.
• Pork Rinds - "I didn't wake up / Craving cotton balls"
• Rest Awhile
• Sleep
• Sleeping In The Flowers
• Sleepless Stephanie
• Sleepwalkers
• Tired Of Sleeping
• Trouble Awful Devil Evil - The narrator sleeps through all the turmoil around him.
• Wake Up Call

Briefly mentioned

• 2082 - "Draw the curtain / Look, you're only sleeping"
• Anaheim - "Fall asleep with pizza crumbs on my clothes"
• All The Lazy Boyfriends - "Spaced out and sleepless"
• Another First Kiss - "I'm asleep but she's talking to me"
• Be Patient - "You're sleepy, you're sleepy, now it's time to go to bed."
• The Bloodmobile - "Regulate your hunger or your sleep"
• The Bright Side - "Half-awake and self-possessed"
• CATENAS MEAS AMISI - (transl.) "Now I sleep forever"
• Cowtown - "How sleepless is the egg"
• Definition Of Good - "Sleeping in the bathtub"
• Dog Walker - "Stay realistic and stay awake"
• Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "Wake me when it's over, touch my face"
• Four Of Two - "At once I awoke to a futuristic world"
• Goatee - "Avatars are coming to sleep on your couch"
• The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
• Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal - though the opening line sounds like it should mean something else, it does refer to normal sleep
• Hide Away Folk Family - "And sadly the cross-eyed bear's been put to sleep behind the stairs"
• Homunculus - "A disco nap"
• Houston - "I'm sleeping in the Astrodome"
• It Said Something - "I don't even dream about that kind of thing"; "I was sleeping and then / I was awoken / I'll never sleep again"
• Less Than One - "The only way I get any sleep / Is if ten radios are playing"
• Let's Get This Over With - "And when you wake up..."
• London - "Do I sleep in my clothes?"
• Lord Snowdon - "Dummies, models, heavy sleepers"
• Love Is Eternity - "Don't say it's okay then go to sleep mad"
• Maine - "Exhausted from oversleep"
• Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees And Hares - "Don't wake up the hibernating bear / He'll spend all winter there / Asleep"
• Moonbeam Rays - "Half asleep and brainwashed"
• Mr. Tambourine Man - "I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to"
• My Evil Twin - "Sleep all through the day"
• Never Knew Love - "Now they all are sleeping, but this keeps us awake"
• Night Security - "I want to sleep right in my clothes"
• Or So I Have Read - "Animals can smell your dreams"
• Outboard Part Of Man - "I'm a night light sleep tight night light sleep tight, night sleep night sleep"
• Penguin - "Standing, sleeping"
• Pirate Girls Nine - "And it's not too past your bedtime"
• Plain As The Lie On Your Lips - "Bedtime stories never helped me sleep"
• Push Back The Hands - "It wouldn't help you if you'd had any sleep"
• Reprehensible - "And puts me to sleep"
• Stand On Your Own Head - "You made my day now you have to sleep in it"
• Thinking Machine - "Sleep expensive cloud enjoy"
• Three Might Be Duende - "Sleep's older brother"
• Walk On Water - "Stick with me, you'll never sleep"
• Wearing A Raincoat - sleeping and waking
• We've Got A World That Swings - "Up at dawn and sleepy and yawning"
• With The Dark (Live) - "Try to sleep, try to end it"
• The World's Address - "Couldn't sleep last night"

See also

• Dreams