Sleepflower

Manic Street Preachers

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


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Sleepflower Lyrics as written by Edwards Bradfield

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    good analysis.

    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.

    palookalooon July 02, 2008   Link

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