This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I should be calling collect from jail
For the things I commit each night in my head
Like last night in my sleep I got to snuff you
But then I woke up again, safe in my little bed
No one is safe when I close my eyes I come to take your life
I get to force your untimely disappearance
Each night in my dreams, when I'm fast asleep
I close my eyes, and you just vanish soon as I
Lay down my head when I'm dead to the whole wide world
No one is safe when I close my eyes I come to take your life
And then I wake up again and it was all just a dream
And everything is the same
(Sleepwalker) Did I give you concrete shoes
And throw you off of a bridge?
(Sleepwalker) When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul's mine to keep I feel you near me
Go to sleep, Sleepwalker
Just taking a stroll; don't go to sleep!
Here's some toothpicks for your eyes!
You always make an excellent cadaver
I roll your body up in a carpet to make music in the
Trunk of my limousine, wrapped up in a rug
A fitting end is that I send you up the river like a punk
No one is safe when I close my eyes I come to take your life
The angel of death is pissed off at me again
Just because I got to put you out of my misery
It doesn't matter; I am without fear
Now you're dead; I won't shed another bloody tear for you
No one is safe when I close my eyes I come to take your life
I'm calling down the thunder, then you'll sleep with the fishes
The answer to all of my wishes
(Sleepwalker) Did I tell you I was in movies
Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch?
(Sleepwalker) Everyday, another way
I know you can hear me
I think you'd look nice in a Colombian necktie
Should stop your tongue from wagging the dog
No more stupidity from you, as I pull your tongue through
For a smile from ear to ear, now there's nothing to hear
No one is safe when I close my eyes I come to take your life
And then I wake up and it was all just a dream
And everything is still the same
(Sleepwalker) Did I give you concrete shoes
And throw your body off of a bridge?
(Sleepwalker) When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep I feel you near me
(Sleepwalker) Or did I tell you I was in movies
Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch?
(Sleepwalker) Everyday, another way
I know you can hear me
(Sleepwalker) Did I buy you the farm
Put a horse head in your bed?
(Sleepwalker) When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep; I feel you near me
(Sleepwalker) Everyday
Everyday, another way
(Sleepwalker) When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep; I know you can hear me
(Sleepwalker)
(Sleepwalker)
(Sleepwalker)
(Sleepwalker)
For the things I commit each night in my head
Like last night in my sleep I got to snuff you
But then I woke up again, safe in my little bed
No one is safe when I close my eyes I come to take your life
I get to force your untimely disappearance
Each night in my dreams, when I'm fast asleep
I close my eyes, and you just vanish soon as I
Lay down my head when I'm dead to the whole wide world
No one is safe when I close my eyes I come to take your life
And then I wake up again and it was all just a dream
And everything is the same
(Sleepwalker) Did I give you concrete shoes
And throw you off of a bridge?
(Sleepwalker) When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul's mine to keep I feel you near me
Go to sleep, Sleepwalker
Just taking a stroll; don't go to sleep!
Here's some toothpicks for your eyes!
You always make an excellent cadaver
I roll your body up in a carpet to make music in the
Trunk of my limousine, wrapped up in a rug
A fitting end is that I send you up the river like a punk
No one is safe when I close my eyes I come to take your life
The angel of death is pissed off at me again
Just because I got to put you out of my misery
It doesn't matter; I am without fear
Now you're dead; I won't shed another bloody tear for you
No one is safe when I close my eyes I come to take your life
I'm calling down the thunder, then you'll sleep with the fishes
The answer to all of my wishes
(Sleepwalker) Did I tell you I was in movies
Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch?
(Sleepwalker) Everyday, another way
I know you can hear me
I think you'd look nice in a Colombian necktie
Should stop your tongue from wagging the dog
No more stupidity from you, as I pull your tongue through
For a smile from ear to ear, now there's nothing to hear
No one is safe when I close my eyes I come to take your life
And then I wake up and it was all just a dream
And everything is still the same
(Sleepwalker) Did I give you concrete shoes
And throw your body off of a bridge?
(Sleepwalker) When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep I feel you near me
(Sleepwalker) Or did I tell you I was in movies
Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch?
(Sleepwalker) Everyday, another way
I know you can hear me
(Sleepwalker) Did I buy you the farm
Put a horse head in your bed?
(Sleepwalker) When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep; I feel you near me
(Sleepwalker) Everyday
Everyday, another way
(Sleepwalker) When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep; I know you can hear me
(Sleepwalker)
(Sleepwalker)
(Sleepwalker)
(Sleepwalker)
Lyrics submitted by Metal_Up_Ya_Ass_Jay
Sleepwalker Lyrics as written by Dave Mustaine
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
The intro of Lonely Day is something like this:
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While the intro of Sleepwalker is something like this:
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E|----------0--------------------------------------------------------------| B|-------0-----0---------------0-----------------0-------------------------| G|----0-----------0---------0-----0-----------0-----0----------0-----------| D|--2--------------------2-----------0-----0-----------0-----0-------------| A|--------------------3-----------------2-----------------0----------------| E|----------------------------------------------------------------3-2-0----|
How are they identical???!!!
Who are System Of A Down to steal a song from anyway? especially when we're talking about Megadeth!
Oh man... Now I HAVE TO HAVE THIS ALBUM. If for no other reason, this song right here. Much better than anything on The System Has Failed. And that's saying something. This ranks a lot closer to Rust In Peace or Countdown to Extinction.
Fan-ranting aside... It seems to be a song about someone who has a strong desire to kill someone, and obviously dreams about it in multiple methods. Pretty straightforward to me. Just a song about urges to kick someones' ass to death. Or, should I say deth?
someone who has constant dreams about murdering a loved one, and dreams it so much that it's all he thinks about, and eventualy he dose it for real
cant wait for UA
Sorry for double posting. just to correct the Sleepwalker intro:
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E|--------0------------------------------------------| B|------0---0---------0-----------0------------------| G|----0-------0-----0---0-------0---0-------0--------| D|--2-------------0-------0---0-------0---0----------| A|---------------0-----------2-----------0------------| E|------------------------------------------------3-2-0--|
I personally like the lyrics. The line "The angel of death is pissed off at me again" sounds very Rust In Peace. Another reason Megadeth > Metallica, at least when they say they're going to go back to a style, they actually fucking mean it =D
It's about a guy how has dreams/nightmares about killing people close to him, and he's worried that eventually he'll actually do it
I proper love this song. =] The lyrics are bit..mehhh.
But i love mustaines voice when he sings this bit, No one is safe When I close my eyes I come to take your life
Amazing. =]
love this song, imo one of the best on the album
i think it has something to due with the media/culture of todays society since the words reference a lot of movies
"Did I tell you I was in movies" "Or put a horse head in your bed"
and how in dreams people can do what they cant in everyday life (i.e. kill people)
My favorite Megadeth song. \m/
no man the tuning makes it sound exact Daron (SOAD) uses like crazy tuning and hey its my opinion i love megadeth and system of a down. the tuning in tht tab is wrong btw i kno how to play lonely day the tunings off. lol just sayin