ORLANDO TRIP
04 / 14

If This Is Sleep…

Lyrics

Wake up, dear
Morning light
Hear, dogs bark
Trumpets fanfare
Drums beat
Get up!

One day –
Two days –
Three –
Four –
Five –
Six –
Seven –

Where have you been?
Abed?
In heaven?

Sleep may be death
Yet death is not the end
Dreams all but innocent
Wake up, new life!
Hide well, old pain!

Was this sleep?
May I ask –
If this is sleep
How is it made?
You think
We need…

Small dose –
Of death –
A day –
To –
Live –
Our –
Lives?

We have to die?
Sometimes?
To live on?

Sleep may be death
Yet death is not the end
Dreams all but innocent
Wake up, new life!
Hide well, old pain!

About this song

Orlando contemplates the mysterious interplay between sleep and death, reflecting on the necessity of experiencing small doses of ‘death’ to fully appreciate life. Orlando develops the philosophy of creating a new existence in burying old pains…

Credits

Music: Christian Mair
Lyrics: Anna Luca Poloni

Vocals: Anna Luca Poloni
Guitars, keys, programming: Christian Mair

Recorded, mixed & produced by Christian Mair