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Marika Hackman - Before I Sleep
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Charlie Andrew
Charlie Andrew
Producer
Robin Schmidt
Robin Schmidt
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

So, "Before I Sleep", um, is-is one of my favorite tracks off the album Um, it was a guitar part that I had for a while, it was the first time I played around with different tunings Um, so kind of a step into the unknown for me Um, and I came up with the guitar part and it took me a few months I think to actually end up with the melody and the lyrics Um, I used inspiration, um, from a poet called Robert Frost for some of the lyrics, um, there's a stanza in one of his poems which is "The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep" And I remember I studied that poem in school and um, just absolutely fell in love with that Um, so yeah, I took that as inspiration, obviously the title comes directly out of that Um, and you know, in terms of production we just decided to keep it pretty stripped back, um, and let that guitar part speak for itself and the lyrics really come to the front Um, I think it's important to leave space for the music to speak for itself
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