"The song is about my wife’s night terrors, which she has all the time. It can be really spooky…sometime’s it’s really funny, but a lot of the time it can just be really startling and...
When she sleeps
There is a fever dream, yeah
It brings a night terror
To harm this fragile bird
She speaks in tongues
Her words they come undone, yeah
And with a wayward mind
She struggles though the night
All that I can do
Is hope she makes it through
Through the night
Through the night
These cold nightmares
They make her worse for wear
Lost in the dark
She's got a heavy heart
And when she wakes
In her fragile state
Well, she calls my name
Hoping that I keep her safe
All that I can do
Is hope she makes it through
All the I can do
Is hope she makes it through
Through the night
Through the night
Through the night
Through the night
All that I can do
Is hope she makes it through
All that I can do
Is hope she makes it through
Through the night
There is a fever dream, yeah
It brings a night terror
To harm this fragile bird
She speaks in tongues
Her words they come undone, yeah
And with a wayward mind
She struggles though the night
All that I can do
Is hope she makes it through
Through the night
Through the night
These cold nightmares
They make her worse for wear
Lost in the dark
She's got a heavy heart
And when she wakes
In her fragile state
Well, she calls my name
Hoping that I keep her safe
All that I can do
Is hope she makes it through
All the I can do
Is hope she makes it through
Through the night
Through the night
Through the night
Through the night
All that I can do
Is hope she makes it through
All that I can do
Is hope she makes it through
Through the night
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And yeah I read this is about his wife and her night terrors too.
And yeah I read this is about his wife and her night terrors too.
I just heard this for the first time tonight. It's amazing, raw emotion. It's so real to me because of my own experience so similar to this song. I went through a lot of trauma and over the past few years would wake up with nightmares, drenched in sweat and afraid.
And what did I do?
I reached over to my bedside table and hit play on my stereo. I listened to so much music every night to get me back to sleep-lots of the time it was City and Colour...As much as these lyrics are a bit too close to home for me, I'm blown away by this song. bravo.
The lyrics tell a story of a man, who witnesses his lover speaking incoherently in a nightmare. "Her words they come undone" suggests the girl's words mean nothing, and the problem is beyond her control as well.