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Sleep Tonight Lyrics
We don't want to sleep tonight
Still young like that I count the lines
Beside your mouth that smiles now
My arms reach up as you go down
With buried heads we both forget
All of the past and its regret
Wind picks up the window shakes
But we won't hear the morning break
You will cry
And I will cry
Because all the love's
Alive tonight
Neighborhoods will try to dream
While you and me we hold and lean
Onto bodies slick and charged
Together just one beating heart
All around us quiet now
We hear the leaves fall to the ground
Morning light upon our bed
An ally while I catch your breath
You will cry
And I will cry
Because all the love's
Alive tonight
Still young like that I count the lines
Beside your mouth that smiles now
My arms reach up as you go down
With buried heads we both forget
All of the past and its regret
Wind picks up the window shakes
But we won't hear the morning break
And I will cry
Because all the love's
Alive tonight
While you and me we hold and lean
Onto bodies slick and charged
Together just one beating heart
All around us quiet now
We hear the leaves fall to the ground
Morning light upon our bed
An ally while I catch your breath
And I will cry
Because all the love's
Alive tonight
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I think it about being so wrapped up in each other that nothing else really matters except what they are doing at that exact moment, whatever it is, sexual or not. In an interview, Torquil said that they tried to write an album about sex, so that's whats coming across. It reminds me of two people coming together after having broken up, and how they're so attuned to each other and in love that they don't know why they were ever apart.
this song is so beautiful that you should never listen to it while going through a breakup. it will just break your heart.
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this my favorite song of the album. it is just beautiful. There's a certain thing to amy's voice that makes me shiver each time i listen to it. I just love it
this song was beyond beautiful at a show they played in mpls last night. amy singing "we hear the leaves fall to the ground/morning light upon our bed/ an ally while i catch your breath"...unreal.
LooksLikeLove is right, i know this from personal experience :(
Haha, when I saw them in Boston, Torquil said this song was about cunningulis. Amy seemed a little embarassed.
ditto. i got dumped this week and this cd has been the anthem. it's perfect to commiserate with.
Actually, when you think about it...this song could very easily be about cunnilingus. Haha. In any case, I love this line:
"with buried heads we both forget all of the past and its regret wind picks up the window shakes but we won't hear the morning break"
Kinda reminds me of a double-suicide...Romeo and Juliet style.
haha actually when I heard this I thought it was about cunnilingus, cause of the line: "my arms reach up as you go down" oh and also "together just one beating heart" cause whenever I hear that line, it means something sexual..but other way, it's such a sweet song.
Torquil said it was about fucking. Regardless of what its about, its an amazing song and just beautiful live.