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And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going
And you said, it was like fire around the brim
Burning solid, burning thin the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
I dragged you back a sleepyhead, sleepyhead
They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
With all their lions, with all their might and all their thirst
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
Against the walls, against your rules, against your skin
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes, begonia skies like a sleepyhead, sleepyhead
And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going
And you said, it was like fire around the brim
Burning solid, burning thin the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
I dragged you back a sleepyhead, sleepyhead
They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
With all their lions, with all their might and all their thirst
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
Against the walls, against your rules, against your skin
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes, begonia skies like a sleepyhead, sleepyhead
Lyrics submitted by robbnthahood
Track duration: 02:55
"Sleepyhead" as written by Michael Traditional/angelakos
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Everything is going to the beat
Everything is going
The opening line is repeated, which indicates pattern or routine. Lalala life goes on and all that. The last line is cut off mid phrase indicating a sudden break in that normalcy. I think this is when the speaker of the song discovers his lover dead from a drug overdose.
You said it was like fire...
They must have discussed her drug abuse before. He likely has been trying to help her get clean or maybe even thought she was.
..Like saltwater in my eyes
He's comparing the sensation she described from the burning in his eyes as he cries over her dead body. He could even be angry with her or himself for not preventing what he saw as the inevitable outcome of her drug addiction.
They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst...
This phrase is describing the aftermath. What can anyone say to a man that found the love of his life dead, especially when it might have been prevented. There are no words to comfort him. I think there could be religious reference (lions) in here but it also sounds like medics, police etc.
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes...
I think he is trying to say that this emotional trauma has aged him.
Overall I think he has been in shock the second that fourth line of the opening phrase cuts off. He found her and has been sitting in the corner, watching police and medics swarm around her body, no one can comfort him, he is lost in a trance, staring into her drugged out, dead eyes and in that moment he feels like he aged a lifetime from his grief.
Looking back it's almost sort of funny, but back then, I was enraged that people would act so happy about taking me out of the only good part of the day and bringing me back into dark reality.
'But O as to embrace me she enclin'd,
I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.'
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Burning solid, burning thin the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
-The pleasure and pain experienced during penetration (probably the girl was a virgin)
Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes
-During sex she was sweating (saltwater) and I assume she was on top because the sweat fell in to his eyes and that hurts (fire)
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
I dragged you back a sleepyhead, sleepyhead
-With all the movement she was near the edge of the bed, and he pulled her in with as her eyes rolled back in climax (sleepyhead)
They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
With all their lions, with all their might and all their thirst
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
Against the walls, against your rules, against your skin
-The girl was probably young and when her parents found out, it was a total conflict and they scolded her while she revealed her true persona
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes, *but go in disguise* like a sleepyhead, sleepyhead
-he was always there for her as time passes (geared grew) and he will always remember the climax look she had on her face the day they made love.
and to be completely honest the way the song is designed and the way the song was written, its pretty amazing, its an amazing song and it doesn't have all the unnecessary cursing and other crap that a lot of songs have these days without meaning
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And you said, it was like fire around the brim
Burning solid, burning thin the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
This heroin addict is describing the awesome sensation of being high to her lover, for whom I assume has never done the drug and he does not want her to do it. The fire being the sensation of the heroin flooding the body when it is first injected. Burning solid as is takes over the body, the mind; burning thin as is pulsates through the thin veins, especially at the burning rim or the spot where it was injected. The drug shocks the body; it's a new sensation that's intense and causes all other sensations to subside. In other words, all other sensations become lost like the black night sky and only the feeling of the drug can be felt like stars burning in the dark night.
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Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
I dragged you back a sleepyhead, sleepyhead
He watches her take heroin and he sees the effects it's having on her. He can see the fire that is taking over her body and mind. He can see it in her eyes. She slowly becomes sleepy, loosing all conscious control of her body as she almost falls off the bed. In attempt to save her in some small way, he helps her by pulling her back onto the bed to a safer place. She is now completely taken over by the drug; she is now a sleepyhead.
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They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
With all their lions, with all their might and all their thirst
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
Against the walls, against your rules, against your skin
The lover could not save her from her heroin addiction and evenly she dies because of it. When some sort of authority, such as police, EMT, or forensics found her dead body, they couldn't think of something to say because it was simply a tragedy. With all their power (lions), science, and knowledge, no one could save her from her addiction. They take her body away, treating in ways that she would have never allowed, dissecting and analyzing it in attempt to understand the cause of death; all of which is taking place in her own room, against her walls.
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My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes, begonia skies like a sleepyhead, sleepyhead
The man mourns over the death of his lover. He cannot function in his daily life because he was not able to save her. His beard grows to floor as he is paralyzed in his morning. He is paralyzed and haunted by the image of her dead eyes, which is all too similar to what her eyes looked like when she was high on heroin, when she was a sleepyhead.
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I could be completely wrong since I have never done heroin before, but this is my impression. Regardless of the upbeat tone of this song, it is definitely a song of a tragedy and some kind of loss. I also cannot break away from an episode of Breaking Bad, where Jesse's heroin addict girlfriend dies and he heavily mourns from her death. And the song came out around the same time....hmmm.
But then, people make fun of her for dating the guy in my mind due to the fact they have different religions/skin color. So, she 'burst' or like I think, burst into tears/rage. The 'lions' are all the horrible people who made fun of her. "With all their might, all their thirst". "They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin". She was having second thoughts about it. They crowded her brain, she wanted to do so many things with him, but thoughts were wearing thin.
"Against your walls, Against your rules, Against your skin" Like I said before, Against the rules of her religion and people didn't like the different skin colors together. ((I got nothin' for the walls part))
For the whole beard part, he was waiting for her one day and it felt like such a long time, so I'm guessing that represented time. He went to her house and found that she had committed suicide and her eyes were like begonia skies as they glazed over. He called her a sleepyhead cause he just didn't want to believe she was really dead.