Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
“Insomnia” is the seventh track on Pang, and captures the emotions of despair and distance that accompany insomnia. It was written over the course of several months in 2017.
In an Instagram post about the song, Polachek said:
I realized that the “slipping” itself was what the song was about: the i...
[Verse 1]
How long can sunlight stay warm in a stone?
How long 'til the bath runs cold?
[Chorus]
Come dawn, come day, come half-awake
Come blue, come gray, come waves that break
And it's not enough
No reply, no relief
[Verse 2]
Dreams of dry fields
That once were green
Burned by someone just like me
[Chorus]
Come dawn, come day, come half-awake
Come blue, come gray, come waves that break
And it's not enough
No reply, no relief
[Outro]
Hold on
Hold on
To save a single living piece of us
I still got it
I still got your heat
Insomnia was written by Caroline Polachek & Danny L Harle.
Insomnia was produced by Caroline Polachek & Danny L Harle.
Caroline Polachek released Insomnia on Fri Oct 18 2019.
Wrote this one in two phases, beginning June 2017 with @dannylharle . We wanted to make something related to Parachute but darker and more intense. It started the only fight we ever had: Danny sketched out these amazing chords very fast with suspensions inspired by renaissance polyphony, and I set a...