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Asleep
Classical
Asleep was released on September 6, 2019 by Sterling as a part of the album Peter Lindroth: The Wilfred Owen Songs
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Release DateSeptember 6, 2019
LabelSterling
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM78

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
John Erik Eleby
John Erik Eleby
Performer
Mats Jansson
Mats Jansson
Performer
Yoriko Asahara
Yoriko Asahara
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Peter Lindroth
Peter Lindroth
Composer

Lyrics

Asleep
Under his helmet, up against his pack,
After the many days of work and waking,
Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back.
And in the happy no-time of his sleeping,
Death took him by the heart. There was a quaking
Of the aborted life within him leaping…
Then chest and sleepy arms once more fell slack.
And soon the slow, stray blood came creeping
From the intrusive lead, like ants on track.
Whether his deeper sleep lie shaded by the shaking
Of great wings, and the thoughts that hung the stars,
High pillowed on calm pillows of God’s making
Above these clouds, these rains, these sleets of lead,
And these winds’ scimitars;
– Or whether yet his thin and sodden head
Confuses more and more with the low mould,
His hair being one with the grey grass
And finished fields of autumns that are old…
Who knows? Who hopes? Who troubles? Let it pass!
He sleeps. He sleeps less tremulous, less cold
Than we who must awake, and waking, say Alas!
Written by: Peter Lindroth
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