Sleep (Theme)
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Songs about sleeping and related subjects.
Central theme[edit]
- AKA Driver - NyQuil
- Am I Awake? - The side effects of lack of sleep
- Ant - "There's an ant crawling up your back in the nighttime / But you think that's okay while you're sleeping"
- Bed Bed Bed
- Birdhouse In Your Soul - Sung from the perspective of a nightlight
- Daylight - "So here we are / Awake and dreaming"
- Got Getting Up So Down - "...I can do it in my sleep"
- Good To Be Alive - Takes place immediately after the narrator wakes up
- Goodnight My Friends
- I Can't Remember The Dream
- I Slept With This Thing All The Way Back From Baltimore
- Idaho - While on LSD, the narrator stays up all night for fear of sleep.
- Lazyhead And Sleepybones
- Long White Beard
- Lullaby To Nightmares
- Mr. Mischief Night - The titular character spies on a sleeping victim.
- Pork Rinds - "I didn't wake up / Craving cotton balls"
- Rest Awhile
- Sleep
- Sleeping In The Flowers
- Sleepless Stephanie
- Sleepwalkers
- Tired Of Sleeping
- Trouble Awful Devil Evil - The narrator sleeps through all the turmoil around him.
- Wake Up Call
Briefly mentioned[edit]
- 2082 - "Draw the curtain / Look, you're only sleeping"
- Anaheim - "Fall asleep with pizza crumbs on my clothes"
- All The Lazy Boyfriends - "Spaced out and sleepless"
- Another First Kiss - "I'm asleep but she's talking to me"
- Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth - "Sleep of reason corporation"
- Be Patient - "You're sleepy, you're sleepy, now it's time to go to bed."
- The Bloodmobile - "Regulate your hunger or your sleep"
- The Bright Side - "Half-awake and self-possessed"
- Butcher's Tale - "So I guess he sleeps at night"
- CATENAS MEAS AMISI - (transl.) "Now I sleep forever"
- Cowtown - "How sleepless is the egg"
- Crazy Pavements - "Sleeping around like I have no mind of my own"
- Definition Of Good - "Sleeping in the bathtub"
- Dial-A-Song Promo - "You've been losing sleep"
- Dog Walker - "Stay realistic and stay awake"
- Don't Let's Start - "Wake up, smell the cat food"
- Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "Wake me when it's over, touch my face"
- Extra Savoir-Faire - "When you wake up from your dream, I'll be gone"
- Four Of Two - "At once I awoke to a futuristic world"
- Goatee - "Avatars are coming to sleep on your couch"
- The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
- Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal - though the opening line sounds like it should mean something else, it does refer to normal sleep; "I could never sleep my way to the top / 'Cause my alarm clock always wakes me right up"
- Hide Away Folk Family - "And sadly the cross-eyed bear's been put to sleep behind the stairs"
- Hillbilly Drummer Girl - "Sleeping bag in back"
- Homunculus - "A disco nap"
- Houston - "I'm sleeping in the Astrodome"
- I Lost Thursday - "Packed in a zipped-up sleeping bag"
- It Said Something - "I don't even dream about that kind of thing"; "I was sleeping and then / I was awoken / I'll never sleep again"
- Lazy - "Counting sheep 'til I sleep like a child would"
- Less Than One - "The only way I get any sleep / Is if ten radios are playing"
- Let Me Tell You About My Operation - "I'll sleep the whole damn day"
- Let's Get This Over With - "And when you wake up..."
- London - "Do I sleep in my clothes?"
- Lord Snowdon - "Dummies, models, heavy sleepers"
- Love Is Eternity - "Don't say it's okay, then go to sleep mad"
- Maine - "Exhausted from oversleep"
- Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees And Hares - "Don't wake up the hibernating bear / He'll spend all winter there / Asleep"
- Money For Dope - "Sleeping bag"
- Moonbeam Rays - "Half asleep and brainwashed"
- Mr. Tambourine Man - "I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to"
- My Evil Twin - "Sleep all through the day"
- Never Knew Love - "Now they all are sleeping, but this keeps us awake"
- Night Security - "I want to sleep right in my clothes"
- Or So I Have Read - "Animals can smell your dreams"
- Outboard Part Of Man - "I'm a night light sleep tight night light sleep tight, night sleep night sleep"
- Penguine - "Standing, sleeping"
- Pirate Girls Nine - "And it's not too past your bedtime"
- Plain As The Lie On Your Lips - "Bedtime stories never helped me sleep"
- Push Back The Hands - "It wouldn't help you if you'd had any sleep"
- Reprehensible - "And puts me to sleep"
- Stand On Your Own Head - "You made my day now you have to sleep in it"
- Thankful For Your Service - "I've been making use of the sleeping bag I keep rolled up and stashed behind my couch"
- Thinking Machine - "Sleep expensive cloud enjoy"
- Three Might Be Duende - "Sleep's older brother"
- Walk On Water - "Stick with me, you'll never sleep"
- Wearing A Raincoat - "You will turn to drugs to help you sleep" , "Sleeping is a gateway drug to being awake again"
- We've Got A World That Swings - "Up at dawn and sleepy and yawning"
- With The Dark (Live) - "Try to sleep, try to end it"
- The World's Address - "Couldn't sleep last night"
- Tick Tick Tick Tick - "Legs have fallen asleep"
