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The song of sleep

What can I say, sleep’s on my mind at the moment. You know, there are some really beautiful songs I know that are about sleep.

This first one isn’t specifically about sleep, but the imagery is dream-like, and still gives me pause whenever I hear it.

Agalloch - In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion

Here at the edge of this world
Here I gaze at a pantheon of oak, a citadel of stone
If this grand panorama before me is what you call God…
Then God is not dead

Insomnium - At The Gates Of Sleep

Listen to the night, hearken to the silence
The wind sings in fir trees, forest’s music rings
Rueful is the tune, wailful the soughing
Soothing is the choir, murmur of the trees

Wintersun - Sleeping Stars

My eyes feel so heavy when the stars are calling me:
“Join with us eternally!”
I’m falling in deep trance and my powers are weakening
I’m falling in a world between dreams and reality

And my all-time favorite, the very reason why I cherish old In Flames in a part of my heart I fear no one will ever plunder:

In Flames - Lord Hypnos

So, find me in these grandiose halls
Where long ago summers eternally fall
And tune the strings of truthful longing
To the frozen music of gods

So overbearingly Lovecraftian, so evocative of a lucidity of dreams never actually experienced. It makes me want to dream of dreams.

I rarely remember my dreams upon waking.