An earlier recording of the song was uploaded in 2009, four years before the album.
“I spent a long time denying love songs because it was all I heard on the radio and I was fed up. I wanted more questioning, songs about the state of our collective consciousness, confronting status quo, anything that wasn't exclusively personal and egoistic. Then I realised there was a love which was not trivial but metahormonal and perhaps even divine. That is the love one has for someone or something that makes absolutely no sense and still it provides certainty and a feeling of safety. This happens between people often without them even noticing it, this is why this song is a lullabye, because we are asleep when true love visits us.”
Sleep blind child and dream of the day
At the end of the night
When sight will come your way
It may be hard to open those big eyes
For you are sunken deep
In sleeping all your life
But one day you'll look at those clouds
Awake, just not knowing how
I ever cried for you
When you had only me too
I don’t know why you do the things you do
How you say you don’t know why
You gotta try to keep your cool
But one day you'll look at that sky
Awake, just not knowing why
You ever cried at all
When you had only me too
Lyrics and notes from the artist’s archive; registration data from PRS and the IFPI ISRC database. See the album page, Publications, Praise and Quotes.