Funny Songs to Play When Someone Falls Asleep
I got up early today and celebrated the last day of Daylight Saving Time of 2010 with a safe three cups of coffee and watched the sun peek through the ficus trees. Tomorrow the sun will arrive an hour early, smashing our sleep pattern to pieces. Not to mention that creeping doom you feel in the late afternoon when darkness comes far too early.
As we prepare to set our clocks back tonight (DST officially ends Sunday at 2 a.m.), let us hope that someone figures out a way to end this ridiculous artificial construct. There's a movement in Britain to do so, arguing that the sudden change to standard time wastes energy and keeps people out of the gym in the afternoon.
If you have young children, you can use some trickery by putting up a dark sheet over the window and having dinner a little earlier on Sunday.
For adults, some experts recommend getting up at the same time as usual Sunday, to stay on schedule. But we all know we cherish that extra magical hour of sleep.
Until then, here are 10 terrific songs about sleep and sleeping in. Click on the link to watch a video on YouTube. I have to be honest and admit that I cribbed a few of them from the National Sleep Foundation list, which has pondered this subject far more than me. But if you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them!
Happy listening, and healthy snoozing.
10. Stay Awake, Julie Andrews. When my kid was first born, the only lullaby I could think of was "Don't You Want Me," by the Human League, which is not appropriate content for a baby, but it worked. Since then I've expanded my repertoire, and this classic from "Mary Poppins" is one of the best.
9. Sleep the Clock Around, Belle & Sebastian. This is a cool video, full of moving clock parts. Like other B&S songs, the lyrics are a little esoteric ("You go to the place where you've finally found you can look at yourself, sleep the clock around"), but this bouncy beat will keep you awake.
8. Sleep Comes Easy, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. Before Kenny the Brownbeard became Kenny the Graybeard, he wrote some fantastic lyrics, including these: "Deep in the night, when I'm tossin' and turnin' and feelin' so all alone, I think about the good times and the good girl waitin' back at home." Proof that Journey didn't invent the lonesome-musician-on-the-road song.
7. Banana Pancakes, Jack Johnson. This song isn't so much about sleep as waking up in a most happy way: "Waking up too early, maybe we could sleep in. Make you banana pancakes, pretend like it's the weekend."
5. Sleep, the Dandy Warhols. This is a spooky 6-minute song with a minimum of words, and it's vampiric fatalism ("I could sleep forever, but it's of her I dream") made it a natural for the "Twilight" soundtrack. In the video, aren't Robert Pattinson's eyes absolutely smoldering?
4. Sleep Tonight, the Rolling Stones. In honor of Keith Richards' new autobiography, we salute the genius who spent countless hours sleeping off benders. This underrated song from the 1986 album Dirty Work, a rare Richards lead vocal, shows that he really can do anything.
3. Talking in Your Sleep, the Romantics. I highly encourage everyone to watch this 1983 video, which starts out rather sultrily and then is taken over by the great eclipse of hair from the four guys in the band. Bed-head was the rule in the '80s.
2. Asleep, the Smiths. Lately I've noticed that many of the best Smiths songs sound even better when they're re-interpreted with a female vocalist. She & Him aced "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want," and a group called Stars makes this melancholy song even sweeter, and sadder ("I don't want to wake up on my own anymore.") It's included on a CD called Sing Me to Sleep: Indie Lullabies.
1. I'm Only Sleeping, the Beatles. There could be no other No. 1 than this, the best pop song about sleeping. John Lennon embraced, and defied, his reputation for laziness, all the way through to his last great song, "Watching the Wheels." In this one, from Revolver in 1966, his simple plea for a few more minutes of log-sawing is something we can all relate to: "Please don't spoil my day, I'm miles away, and after all, I'm only sleeping." Ringo's groggy drumming and Paul's harmony on the chorus makes this song perfect in every way.
Source: https://www.ocregister.com/2010/11/06/10-great-songs-about-sleeping-in/
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