Sleep Lyrics
Caught in slumber's grasp, nowhere that I should be.
I grew so goddamned tired of fighting against these chains.
No signs of relief or payment for my pains.
I know that I must try to break out of this cell I call my life.
To go to sleep is just to hide away.
I close my eyes so I won't see the things I'd have to try to get.
I haven't tried I've only turned away.
In my sleeping world I thought that I was safe.
Free from all the pain and burning light of day.
But even in my sleep now life is less than kind.
No escaping from this madness in my mind.
Severing.
One of my favorite Jawbreaker songs by far. As far as meaning goes, I think its fairly obvious. Just someone hiding from their fears, reality. Reality is pain, is sleep death? Severing yourself from reality, from the pain?
One of my favorite Jawbreaker songs by far. As far as meaning goes, I think its fairly obvious. Just someone hiding from their fears, reality. Reality is pain, is sleep death? Severing yourself from reality, from the pain?
I think it has to deal with a break up. All you want to do is sleep to try and get over it. Then most of the time sleep just ends up being a cell where you constantly think about everything. Or is also could be that it's about wanting something or someone and you never try to go after it and it leaves you in a depressed state of mind.