Sleeping Face
Echoes of Time: Reflecting on Life's Choices in 'Sleeping Face'
Lyrics
Still thinking of the Sixties
Reflecting on the events and culture of the 1960s.
Now you’re in your sixties
Currently in the stage of life characterized by being in one's sixties.
History made a plaything of your past
Feeling that history has manipulated and toyed with one's past.
Feeling sad about the moment
Experiencing sorrow or melancholy about the present moment.
Feeling sad about the dream
Feeling sorrowful about unfulfilled dreams.
It hits you like a fist
Describing the emotional impact, comparing it to a forceful blow.
It hits you like a fist
-Crying for her memory
Expressing sadness for the memory of someone.
While she’s lying there beside you
While the person is physically present, there is emotional distance.
You’re missing her madly
Strongly desiring the person being missed.
As you touch her sleeping face.
Touching the face of the sleeping person, suggesting tenderness.
You should have got kinder
Regretting not being more compassionate in the past.
Not stranger and stranger
Rather than becoming more familiar, things have become more distant.
But nothing you ever did was fair
Reflecting on a history of unfair actions.
You should have tried harder
Expressing a need for greater effort in the past.
But you couldn’t be bothered
Despite the ability, there was a lack of motivation or interest.
You don’t know what you missed
Acknowledging a lack of awareness regarding missed opportunities.
You don’t know what you missed
-Crying for her memory
Reiterating sadness for the memory of someone.
While she’s lying there beside you
Similar to line 11, emphasizing emotional distance despite physical proximity.
You’re missing her madly
Strongly desiring the person being missed.
As you touch her sleeping face
Repeating the tender act of touching the sleeping person's face.
Bernard in the arms of his father
Introducing characters Bernard and his father, highlighting relationships.
Renee in the wreck of a car -
Introducing Renee and a car wreck, suggesting tragic events.
The things that made you what you are
Reflecting on significant events that shaped one's identity.
How quickly it goes
Commenting on the fleeting nature of time, emphasizing its speed and eventual slowing.
How quickly
-How quickly it slows
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