What Insomnium wrote in their booklet :
I think it was back in the spring of 2013, when Century Media threw out an idea of recording a new single, which wold be released beforehand the actual album. We already had couple of songs pretty much finished but I still tried to come up with another catchy song for this purpose. This song became later While We Sleep. Even though all the people in the band liked it, Ephemeral pulled the longer straw and became the number one single choice. In the hindsight, this was absolutely the right choice, as this song needed a bit more attention and caring to actually fly on its own. The addition of clean vocals was a bit last minute thing; I've had this idea for long time but actually had already forgot about it in amidst of all the hurry and rush. I only remembered this couple of nights before and decided to give it a go. All vocal harmonies were thrown in spontaneously, and surprisingly, it sounds more coherent and thought of than it actually is. You just need to go with the flow sometimes. Lyrics deal about forgetting to live in this moment when you're too much concentrated on the future. It's also about realizing that this is it and there's no going back. There's no point of rushing through your life ; It's important to slow down.
V. Friman
What Insomnium wrote in their booklet : I think it was back in the spring of 2013, when Century Media threw out an idea of recording a new single, which wold be released beforehand the actual album. We already had couple of songs pretty much finished but I still tried to come up with another catchy song for this purpose. This song became later While We Sleep. Even though all the people in the band liked it, Ephemeral pulled the longer straw and became the number one single choice. In the hindsight, this was absolutely the right choice, as this song needed a bit more attention and caring to actually fly on its own. The addition of clean vocals was a bit last minute thing; I've had this idea for long time but actually had already forgot about it in amidst of all the hurry and rush. I only remembered this couple of nights before and decided to give it a go. All vocal harmonies were thrown in spontaneously, and surprisingly, it sounds more coherent and thought of than it actually is. You just need to go with the flow sometimes. Lyrics deal about forgetting to live in this moment when you're too much concentrated on the future. It's also about realizing that this is it and there's no going back. There's no point of rushing through your life ; It's important to slow down. V. Friman