The title "Sleepyhead" appears to me a description of someone who appears, quite literally, very sleepy: this person is suffering from an injury or terminal illness. He/she enters a coma, and is kept on life support against their wishes.
The first verse concerning fire is, to me, the sufferer describing the pain of the affliction, which seems to have a manifestation in the eyes ("brims"). At one point, the sufferer was "one inch from the edge of this bed," i.e., very close to death, but the speaker drags him/her back into this world as "a sleepyhead"--in a coma.
"They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst"
No one ever knows what to say when someone dies, especially when that death is untimely. Bursting may mean some kind of heart failure or other literal bursting.
"With all their lions and all their might and all their thirst"
People who are fighting for the sufferer to be kept on life support, thirsting for the him/her to one day wake up, involve doctors, lawyers, and clergy to fight with their scientific, legal, and holy might against the disease, and against people (the speaker) who better knew the sufferer's true wishes.
"They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin"
Friends and family crowd the bedroom of the afflicted -- the person is still alive, being prayed for. You don't usually crowd in the room of someone who's already dead. It is at this point that the grim possibility that death really is here becomes apparent through the thin thoughts of denial.
"Against the walls, against your rules, against your skin"
People are literally pressed against the walls of the room and against the skin of their comatose loved one. They are there against the sufferer's wishes (rules), because if the sufferer had had it their way, the plug would have already been pulled and these people wouldn't be here.
"My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors of your eyes"
The speaker stays loyal and by the sufferer's side. Again, the eyes make an appearance.
"But go in disguise like a sleepyhead"
The sufferer peacefully transitions from their comatose state into death, never shedding their outward "disguise" of simply being asleep.
The title "Sleepyhead" appears to me a description of someone who appears, quite literally, very sleepy: this person is suffering from an injury or terminal illness. He/she enters a coma, and is kept on life support against their wishes.
The first verse concerning fire is, to me, the sufferer describing the pain of the affliction, which seems to have a manifestation in the eyes ("brims"). At one point, the sufferer was "one inch from the edge of this bed," i.e., very close to death, but the speaker drags him/her back into this world as "a sleepyhead"--in a coma.
"They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst" No one ever knows what to say when someone dies, especially when that death is untimely. Bursting may mean some kind of heart failure or other literal bursting.
"With all their lions and all their might and all their thirst" People who are fighting for the sufferer to be kept on life support, thirsting for the him/her to one day wake up, involve doctors, lawyers, and clergy to fight with their scientific, legal, and holy might against the disease, and against people (the speaker) who better knew the sufferer's true wishes.
"They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin" Friends and family crowd the bedroom of the afflicted -- the person is still alive, being prayed for. You don't usually crowd in the room of someone who's already dead. It is at this point that the grim possibility that death really is here becomes apparent through the thin thoughts of denial.
"Against the walls, against your rules, against your skin" People are literally pressed against the walls of the room and against the skin of their comatose loved one. They are there against the sufferer's wishes (rules), because if the sufferer had had it their way, the plug would have already been pulled and these people wouldn't be here.
"My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors of your eyes" The speaker stays loyal and by the sufferer's side. Again, the eyes make an appearance.
"But go in disguise like a sleepyhead" The sufferer peacefully transitions from their comatose state into death, never shedding their outward "disguise" of simply being asleep.
wow, now thqat i tink about it, ur prolly right
wow, now thqat i tink about it, ur prolly right
The last line of the song is 'of your eyes, begonia skies like a sleepyhead, sleepyhead'.
The last line of the song is 'of your eyes, begonia skies like a sleepyhead, sleepyhead'.
I think you are spot on with it being about a coma though - I appeneded my comment to reflect that.
I think you are spot on with it being about a coma though - I appeneded my comment to reflect that.