Sleepless Lyrics
with a swell of panic and pain
my veins are aching for the distant reef
in the crush of emotional waves...
an' don't fight it, it's over your head
it's alright, the rumble in your ears
it's alright to feel a little fear
an' don't fight it, it's over your head
it's alright, you wake up in your bed...
they cover my foreign floors and walls
submarines are lurking in my foggy ceiling
they keep me sleepless at night...
the figures on the beach in the searing night
and the roaring hurt of my silent fight...
can you pull me out
of this sleepless night
can you pull me out?...
For what I know, while recording one of their albums, King Krimson were staying in a rented flat, the noise neighbours did kept Belew awake during those night, and there he wrote this song.\n\nLooking at the song lyrics with this in mind I found parts like "And don\'t fight it, it\'s over your head\nIt\'s alright, the rumble in your ears" which confirm a little bit what I heard.\n\nI have to admit this really looks to me like its something about sleep paralysis tho...
Seems to me that it's about a re-occurring nightmare.
It reminds me of when I suffered from sleep paralysis for a few months.
When an incident of it struck, I felt like I was falling into the sea and crushed beneath waves, stuck seeing shadows and figures moving at the periphery of my vision as I couldn't pull my eyes from the ceiling, gripped with panic as I tried to sit up but couldn't move, tried to scream but could only breathe silently...
Weirdly enough, this is one of my favorite king crimson songs. They sound like the Talking Heads here, too. Maybe that has something to do with it.