Brandon Flowers was inspired to write this song after moving back to Utah after living in Las Vegas for basically 25 years. He’d missed the change in seasons, and experiencing that phenomenon again awoke something in him. Among other things, he was flooded by ideas from his childhood growing up in N...
[Intro]
Um, I hunt elk and deer, um, turkeys, just around here
Um, I've hunted antelope, um
And growing up, we had to be twelve before we could hunt
And now they've lowered it to as soon as you pass hunter's safety, you can hunt, so
I had to wait until I was twelve
As long as you can hold up a gun and know how to shoot it
[Verse 1]
Hey, sleepwalker, don't you miss the way
Wildflowers paint the western hills?
Or the first autumn whisper mid-September brings
And the glowy excitement that it builds?
[Chorus]
Everyone is afraid of something
Evеn the strongest man alive
Hеy, sleepwalker
We went walking in the western hills
And we picked you wildflowers
You gotta open your eyes
[Verse 2]
Hey, dreamcatcher, come out and see the leaves
The mountainside's all watermelon red
Soon enough, they're gonna rust and fall
Leave the mountainside cold and bare
But when the longer days of sun appear
They'll be rising like an answered prayer and I know that
[Chorus]
Everyone is afraid of losing
Even the ones that always win
Hey, sleepwalker
When the mountain comes back to life
It doesn't come from without
It comes from within
[Bridge]
The hills are barren, but we look for what's to come
Sweeter skies and longer days of sun
When you wake up, I'll be standing in the line
To kiss your eyes and wipe the tears from mine
[Chorus]
'Cause everyone is afraid of something
Even the strongest man alive
Hey, sleepwalker
Western Bluebells and Painted Cups
Are getting ready to rise
It's time to begin
It doesn't come from without
It comes from within
Sleepwalker was written by Brandon Flowers & Jonathan Rado.
Sleepwalker was produced by Shawn Everett & Jonathan Rado.
The Killers released Sleepwalker on Fri Aug 13 2021.
The first line that I knew was good in that song was ‘It doesn’t come from without/It comes from within.’ So I built all the rest of the lyrics around that. I had just recently moved back to Utah and was experiencing seasons again. Because in Vegas, it gets hot and then it gets cold, that’s it. You...