Sleep, Silent Child
Daniel Amos * Track #3 On Fearful Symmetry
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Album Fearful Symmetry
- #1A Sigh For You
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- #2The Pool
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- #3Sleep, Silent Child
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- #4Neverland Ballroom
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- #5Strong Points, Weak Points
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- #6Instruction Thru Film
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- #7When Moonlight Sleeps (On the Frosted Hill)
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- #8Sudden Heaven
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- #9Shadow Catcher
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- #10Beautiful One
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Sleep, Silent Child by Daniel Amos
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Daniel AmosWrited by
Terry Scott Taylor & Greg Flesch & Tim ChandlerAbout
Like several songs on Terry Taylor’s solo album Knowledge and Innocence–released just months before Fearful Symmetry–“Sleep Silent Child” is a response to the death of a child–in Taylor’s case, by means of a miscarriage.
Sleep, Silent Child Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Sleep, silent child
Steal away
(You sigh, you sigh, you sigh)
In starry fields, you wander there
Another bright heart in God's embrace
[Chorus 1]
The dazzling, breathing dream
The silent, searching flight
Gave you the strength at last
To live in light
I kiss your lips
Goodnight
[Verse 2]
Sleep, silent child
Peace, be still
(Be still, be still, be still)
Your ears have heard the Holy word
Beyond the dark world's fiery end
[Chorus 2]
The time has come to leave
These distant rims of time
Forgotten days and nights
Of clocks and chimes
I kiss your soul
Divine
Sleep, silent child
[Spoken]
Sleep, silent child
Depart
To the Sovereign of your heart
Draw back blue curtains of the sky
And fly, fly!
[Verse 1]
Sleep, silent child
Steal away
(You sigh, you sigh, you sigh)
In starry fields, you wander there
Another bright heart in God's embrace
[Chorus 1]
The dazzling, breathing dream
The silent, searching flight
Gives you the strength at last
To live in light
I kiss your lips
Goodnight
Sleep, silent child
Sleep, Silent Child Q&A
Who wrote Sleep, Silent Child's ?
Sleep, Silent Child was written by Terry Scott Taylor & Greg Flesch & Tim Chandler.
Who produced Sleep, Silent Child's ?
Sleep, Silent Child was produced by Terry Scott Taylor & Daniel Amos.
When did Daniel Amos release Sleep, Silent Child?
Daniel Amos released Sleep, Silent Child on Mon Sep 15 1986.
What did Daniel Amos say about "Sleep, Silent Child"?
In a 2018 post to his Patreon subscribers, Taylor notes the influence of his wife’s miscarriage in 1979 on “Sleep, Silent Child”:
Over the years since our children’s births, there have been two or three occasions in which the subject of that terrible loss has come up, and with it quiet tears, but t...