The Raveonettes Songs - Endless Sleeper Lyrics

The Raveonettes - Endless Sleeper

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Album: Pe'ahi
Released: 2014

Endless Sleeper Lyrics

Sand in my shoes
And death on my mind
But it's over
It's over
For now

Crying
Mothers
Your sons have drowned
Memories
What memories have the dead
Sometimes I sleep
With my doors unlocked
Sometimes I take on the ocean
Draw the Ace of Spades
And break all the mirrors
And I'm fucked

Shy away from the real thing
You know there is no God
You shy away from everything
You shy away from me

Nowhere to run
In your dreams you are aimless
Nowhere to hide
In your dreams you are useless
How do you sleep
When in dreams you are careless
How do you wake
When your sleep it is endless

Writer/s: SUNE WAGNER
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Endless Sleeper

The opening track to Raveonettes' Pe'ahi album, the song is about the band's Sune Rose Wagner's near drowning in 2008. He explained to Q magazine: "The song begins by retelling the horrific story of a near-drowning surfing incident I had in Hawaii six years ago and how sometimes young lives have to take risks in order to exist. "

"This song starts out the same way as The Doors debut album," Wagner added. "The Doors are the ultimate West Coast band and an endless source of inspiration so it's only fitting we started off Pe'Ahi by paying tribute to them."

The album title refers to a place on the north shore of the island of Maui in Hawaii, which is a popular surfing spot. Speaking about the record's surf inspiration to Drowned in Sound , Sune Rose Wagner commented: "Musically there's a lot of surf guitar sounds in there. But used in very different ways to the traditional surf record sound," he said. "There's also a lot of references to surf language and beaches in the lyrics but again used in a very different context. It was a challenge to try and channel some of the inspiration I found - especially the surf history of Southern California - but not in an obvious way."