Song Lyric Sunday: Sleep

Here we are again, greeting another Sunday; what are you up to today? Something fun? Me? Well, I’m putting together my submission for Song Lyric Sunday, a fantastic way to find new music and new blogger friends. If you haven’t played along before, why not have a go this week? The lovely Helen over at This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time has given us the prompt Sleep………..

Here are the rules for you:

• Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due and it’s honestly just a simple Google search
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and provide a link to where you found the lyrics
• Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song
• Ping back to this post or my own Song Lyric Sunday post
• Read at least one other person’s blog so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process

This is my choice and it was such an easy one to make; as soon as I heard the prompt this song popped int my head instantly:

“I Go To Sleep”

When I look up from my pillow
I dream you are there with me
Though you are far away
I know you’ll always be near to me

I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you’re there with me
I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you’re there with me

I look around me
And feel you are ever so close to me
Each tear that flows from my eye
Brings back memories of you to me

I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you’re there with me
I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you’re there with me

I was wrong, I will cry
I will love you till the day I die
You were all, you alone and no one else
You were meant for me

When morning comes again
I have the loneliness you left me
Each day drags by
Until finally my time descends on me

I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you’re there with me
I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you’re there with me

Written by Ray Davies

Although this was an easy choice to make, it’s a difficult song for me to write about because it sums up, precisely and perfectly how I felt during the months following my husband’s death. To sleep beside someone, every night, for more than 10 years, finding comfort just in their warm presence and then to have it taken away from you is almost unbearable. I dreaded the days because, without my love, they were empty and lacking everything that had ever mattered but the nights……..a time meant for rest and recovery became a form of torment.

My husband and I didn’t fall asleep in each others arms but holding hands, more specifically I would wrap his thumb in my fist and he would close his fingers around mine. We may not wake up like that but that’s how we drifted off, every night. After I lost him, the only way I could sleep was to wrap my fingers around my own thumb and imagine that it was his and that he was still there beside me.

A bed is not a very big space but it can feel enormous when you reach out in the middle of the night searching for a hand that is no longer there. There are blissful seconds when you believe you will find what you are seeking but then all you feel, as you reach further and further is cold, empty sheets. Worse still is the realisation, which comes each and every night, that what you are so desperate to feel, you will never feel again.

The melody, the lyrics and Chrissie Hynde’s powerful performance combine to create a heartbreakingly beautiful song; I really hope that you enjoy it……

Lisa

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