No rest (demo)

from Demos From the End of the World by Dean Lombard

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This was written as part of a fortnightly songwriting challenge from the WestSong songwriting collective in Footscray, Vic. The theme was 'sleep'. I wrote it in bits and pieces, recording riffs and snatches of lyric in garage band and forming the song by copying and pasting bits of audio. I'm still not sure about the lyrics in the chorus: but I just so love how it finishes on that great line I stole from Postal Service song Sleeping In.

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There may be no rest for the wicked
But there is for those who stand by and do nothing
And there’s restless dreams for the ones that seem
To pay the price for everyone else to feel OK

How do they sleep? I wish I could go to sleep
Don’t wake me: I plan on sleeping in

There may be no rest for the wicked
But a fevered dream might be just what it seems
And when you wake in fright from a sleepless night
Knowing nothing will ever be the same

How do they sleep? I wish I could go to sleep
Don’t wake me: I plan on sleeping in

All it takes is doing nothing
This is the garden we’ve grown
So wake up, stand up, wake up, stand up

How do they sleep? I wish I could go to sleep
Don’t wake me: I plan on sleeping in

© Dean Lombard 2018

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from Demos From the End of the World, released May 13, 2020
Everything by Dean Lombard except the line "Don't wake me, I plan on sleeping in" stolen from Ben Gibbard

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Dean Lombard Melbourne, Australia

Quirky and poignant songs about love, loss, politics, society, life, death, cultural imperialism, propaganda, violence and redemption. All handmade in a room full of instruments, with occasional collaborators by invitation only.

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