Leo Wyndham said in the Shoals album listening party on Youtube: “Sleeper is about sleep, dreams and paranoia. I’ve always been a bad sleeper and it’s about the journey with that – the fears and thoughts that arise in the darkness” 34:56
[Verse 1]
Days give away
Constants fade
There's a creature in my ribcage
They'll kiss like a flick knife
Make love like machinery
You're leaking from your calcium canopy
[Chrous 1]
I wanna be a backseat child
Don't wanna be scared to die
[Verse 2]
Let's snort electricity
Cut lines of plasticine
Ride the guillotine
Let's drown in gasoline
I'm losing friends
And is there anybody out there
I wish I was a sleeper
I wish I was a dreamer
[Chorus 2]
I wanna be a vaccined child
Don't wanna be scarеd to die
I wanna be a smoke-screenеd child
I don't wanna be scared for life
[Bridge]
And I'll ween myself off love and medicine
Break bread with the devil in me
Tear flesh from my skeleton
Just to feel something genuine
On our hands' modernity
Children in parenthesis
Is this our infinity?
Is this our infinity?
[Intrumental Interlude]
[Outro]
All gone
Same ground
Fall down
Fall down
My lights are stalling
From no place
From no place
It's all plasticine
Sleeper was written by Harry Deacon & Matt Hodges & Rupert Turner & Leo Wyndham.
Sleeper was produced by Leo Abrahams.