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Sleep Alone Lyrics
as the sun was set and the pieces of light touch your hair perfect love come softly with the dawn, the dawn
city once full of people desolate, is desolate
we look back in to the ruins where we played
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky sky
touch your hand you touch the back of my hand
so many empty nights just waiting for this, for this
standing all heading downsteam
unsteady island we hear nothing, nothing
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky sky
city once full of people desolate, is desolate
we look back in to the ruins where we played
flying through the sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky sky
so many empty nights just waiting for this, for this
standing all heading downsteam
unsteady island we hear nothing, nothing
flying through the sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky sky
flying through the sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky
at least we were together holding hands
flying through the sky sky
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the words to this song give me goosebumps. i love moby.
I see someone's final moments
This song, to me, has a very soothing sound like most of the songs on 18, but it's very sad as well. Moby has said that the real lyrics are "At least we died together, holding hands flying through the sky." It's about people jumping from the World Trade Center towers (holding hands) because they chose to die falling and not of asphyxia or burns.
@swissarmykiss Not true, he said the song was written before that. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/magazine/all-by-himself.html
@swissarmykiss Not true, he said the song was written before that. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/magazine/all-by-himself.html
The Web site posting Moby wrote that morning reads: ''I ran to my roof . . . and now I can't stop shaking and my apartment smells like smoke. What has happened? . . . Oh God.'' Loeb came over. Kelly Tisdale, too. Eventually, Moby drifted into his studio and tried to do a little work. Among other things, it had dawned on him during the day that the lyrics he had written a few weeks before for ''Sleep Alone'' were giving...
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The Web site posting Moby wrote that morning reads: ''I ran to my roof . . . and now I can't stop shaking and my apartment smells like smoke. What has happened? . . . Oh God.'' Loeb came over. Kelly Tisdale, too. Eventually, Moby drifted into his studio and tried to do a little work. Among other things, it had dawned on him during the day that the lyrics he had written a few weeks before for ''Sleep Alone'' were giving him the creeps now. ''It was just so close to what happened,'' he said later. ''That I'd had this image and that I'd had it walking downtown. It felt like I'd been a barnyard animal before a storm.''
He talked to his friends, his managers and his record people about it in the days after the attack, and then he changed the lyrics. The ''fire'' in the hair has become ''light,'' and the couple no longer ''die'' together but ''were'' together. He couldn't have put the song out in the world with the lyrics as they were, he told me. It would have been irresponsible or been seen as exploitative or in some other way given a wrong impression about what it is to be him.
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