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Sleepless Night and The Man
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Solo acoustic/electric progressive/alt rock
Hi... I like to write and make music. What kind of music? Well, I don't really know how to tell you what kind. I write it and it comes out sounding like what it sounds like. Sometimes it's kinda jazzy, sometimes it's country-sounding, but not really. About the only way it doesn't come out is like rap or hip-hop. But that may change someday. Mostly it's artsy-fartsy, rocky, airy, relatively simple sounding stuff. I don't know what else to say, except that most of the time, I like to listen to my music.
Song Info
Genre
Alternative Indie
Charts
#15,440 today Peak #80
#3,008 in subgenre Peak #24
Author
Andy Clipperton
Rights
2005 Andinator Jukebox
Uploaded
March 27, 2006
Track Files
MP3
MP3 6.9 MB 128 kbps 5:59
Story behind the song
I couldn't sleep one night about 15 years ago, so I grabbed a pen and a notebook and started writing. What I wrote became this song.
Lyrics
I've had a long night of sleeplessness I've been pursued by restless dreams My eyes have seen my heart as it drifted away And all the night was filled with silent screams The dust was thick with solemn loneliness My heart was drowning in its fright Then came the claws of dark and flying winds And took away my heart to blackest night The sleek black walls of slavery Held me up against its back, it held me chained The velvet, leathery wings that stole my heart Flew on to higher depths without restraint Footsteps pund out caverns in toxic sand Chasing wicked dreams that hold my heart Fingers grasp at particles of emptiness And all that I hold dear is torn apart Backing away from horror untold, unseen I hold on so tight, so tight to slippery lies Throwing care and caution, like grains of sand I catch the tiny dust within my eyes (The Man) The heaving ground heard a broken sound My eyes tumbled down to see what I had found My heart lay still and it had no will to live It had been killed I had no way to fill it again Until I met The Man Waves rushed in and I saw my sin My excuse was thin I knew I could not win With gentle hand He refused to stand The Second Adam knelt and then began His work in me Hmmm... I met The Man There at His knee I began to see That it wasn't me that had to set me free His profound sorrow brought me new tomorrow My heart began to grow, new blood began to flow in veins again Because I met The Man
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