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Album undun
- #1
DunThe Roots
- #2Sleep
The Roots & Son Little
- #3
Make MyThe Roots & Dice Raw & Big K.R.I.T.
- #4One Time
The Roots & Dice Raw & Phonte
- #5Kool On
The Roots & Greg Porn & Truck North
- #6The OtherSide
The Roots & Bilal & Greg Porn
- #7Stomp
The Roots & Greg Porn
- #8Lighthouse
The Roots & Dice Raw
- #9I Remember
The Roots
- #10Tip the Scale
The Roots & Dice Raw
- #11Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
The Roots
- #12Possibility (2nd Movement)
The Roots
- #13Will to Power (3rd Movement)
The Roots
- #14Finality (4th Movement)
The Roots
Sleep by The Roots (Ft. Son Little)
Release Date
Performed by
The RootsSon LittleProduced by
?uestlove & Hot SugarWrited by
Black Thought & ?uestlove & Son Little & Nick KoenigAbout
“Sleep” is first vocal track on the Roots' concept album undun. The album chronicles Redford Stephens, a young man growing up in the streets who is caught up in a life of crime due largely to his circumstances and society’s inequalities.
The story of undun proceeds in reverse chronological order af...
Sleep Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1: Aaron Livingston]
Like when autumn leaves
Fall down from the trees
There goes my honeybee
[Chorus: Aaron Livingston]
I've lost a lot of sleep to dreams
And I do not miss them
Yet, I wouldn't wish them on the worst of enemies
Let them burn, go from here
Like when autumn leaves
[Verse 2: Black Thought]
To catch a thief, who stole the soul I prayed to keep
Insomniac, bad dreams got me losing sleep
I'm dead tired, my mind playing tricks, deceit
A face in the glass, unable to admit defeat
All that I am, all that I was is history
The past unraveled, adding insult to this injury
I'm fighting the battle for the soul of the century
Destiny is everything that I pretend to be
Look, and what I did came back to me eventually
The music played on, and told me I was meant to be awake
It's unresolved like everything I had at stake
Illegal activity controls my Black symphony
Orchestrated like it happened incidentally
Oh, there I go, from a man to a memory
Damn, I wonder if my fam will remember me?
[Chorus: Aaron Livingston]
I've lost a lot of sleep to dreams
And I do not miss them yet
I wouldn't wish them on the worst of enemies
Let them burn, go from here
Like when autumn leaves
Sleep Q&A
Who wrote Sleep's ?
Sleep was written by Black Thought & ?uestlove & Son Little & Nick Koenig.