Morning always seems too stale to justify
Lament blossoms, hours minutes of our lives
Broken thoughts run through your empty mind
At least a beaten dog knows how to lie
I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety
Endless hours in bed, no peace in this mind
No one knows the hell where innocence dies
Fragments crawling like cobwebs on stone
Blows away the safety only a sleeping pill knows
I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety
I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety
Lament blossoms, hours minutes of our lives
Broken thoughts run through your empty mind
At least a beaten dog knows how to lie
I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety
Endless hours in bed, no peace in this mind
No one knows the hell where innocence dies
Fragments crawling like cobwebs on stone
Blows away the safety only a sleeping pill knows
I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety
I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety
Lyrics submitted by ShiverForMe
Sleepflower Lyrics as written by Edwards Bradfield
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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After a major incident such as bereavement, separation or anxiety disorder there's the impact on life and especially sleep... when "innocence dies" it's not just a clean cut thing, it has major repercussions. And after some time of not sleeping it compounds the problems (lament blossoming) and makes the recipient feel even more wretched... a dog may be beaten and abused but at least it can have the luxury of sleep. Cobwebs on stone are the aftermath of old spiderwebs, serving no function but still there as a reminder, like the fragments of memory and anxiety that still remain in your mind and cause problems, so much so that even sleeping pills have no effect.
It's a great song, has a lot of personal relevance to me (having suffering from chronic insomnia for about thirteen years) and has fantastic imagery.
(Richey James)
Anyway, as to the song itself: well, the recurring Manic theme of sleep crops up again, and as I think about it I see an odd connection between this and 'I Live To Fall Asleep'. Seems to basically amount to 'being asleep is better than being awake,' although I daresay it's slightly more nuanced than that. The restlessness, the despair of consciousness or something.
Anyway, I do love this song, even if JDB can't stand it (he's not a fan of 'Revol,' either - what's that about?!).
This lyrics remind me of Fight Club, when the narrator says "With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy."
As anxiety grows and the mind loses focus some people gets paralized, like an animal looking at some car lights, one knows what will happen if we don't move, but somehow we can't (Endless hours in bed, no peace in this mind).
No one knows the hell where innocence dies
Fragments crawling like cobwebs on stone
Blows away the safety only a sleeping pill knows"
Love these lines,cery poetic,amazing amazing. This song is one of the best ever made about insomnia
My dad has insomnia and therefore there is a chance that i have it too
But honestly,who doesnt go to bed and accidentally wind up thinking about everything they had done wrong and getting anxious about their tomorrow and whether its gonna be as shitty as today or...?
Forget the illegal war in Iraq, forget the oppression of the East Timorese, forget the poisoning of Russian dissidents - THAT'S what makes me lose faith in humanity!
i actually didn't like the lyrics very much, just the sound because it seemed as if some of the words were strung together just to sound miserable-- and therefore i could hardly understand the meaning unless i had bad insomnia problems myself.
but now that someone who understands the problem analyzes it it makes more sense.