“Child Asleep” serves as the lead single from The Faint’s 2019 album Egowerk. It describes the speaker’s realization that he is not as enlightened as he may have once previously thought he was.
The song is thus his futile attempt to make sense of the world around him, some of which is true, some of...
[Verse 1]
If I was wise, I would see
I'm a child still asleep
Listen to the guess you made
There are no separate things
[Verse 2]
If I was wise, I would see
I'm a child still asleep
Listen to the guess you made
There are no separate things
[Verse 3]
If I was wise, I would see
I'm a child still asleep
Listen to the guess you made
There are no separate things
With all the world still asleep
I would like not to be
Let belief fade away
It wasn't real anyway
[Outro]
Earth, magnet, pole
True, distance, home
Earth, magnet, pole
True, distance, home
Child Asleep was written by Graham Ulicny & Dapose & Clark Baechle & Todd Fink.
Child Asleep was produced by Clark Baechle.
The Faint released Child Asleep on Fri Dec 07 2018.