 Genius Lyrics
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Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden
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Title track “Take Me Back To Eden” is the eleventh track from Sleep Token’s 2023 release, Take Me Back to Eden.
Speculation has gathered around the symbolism of form, instinct and
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Sleep Token – Dark Signs
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[Verse 1] / Where I was raised, there was no streetlights / Just pitch black and passing headlights / And where we met, there must have been dark signs / Omens in your skies / [Pre
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Sleep Token – Hypnosis
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[Verse 1] / Lift, oh, lift me out / Of my own skin / Of all my doubt / Oh, and take / Take from me / Leave nothing left / Take everything / [Verse 2] / Sink, sink your teeth
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Sleep Token – High Water
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[Verse 1] / For the time being / I will still avoid my own questions / And we both bury that history deep / But you know I can hold my breath forever / For the time being / You are
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Sleep Token – The Offering
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[Verse 1] / And you are a garden, entwined with all / You are the silence on sacred shores / You've got diamonds for teeth, my love / So take a bite of me, just once, I want to
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Sleep Token – Descending
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[Verse 1] / Just take it all / For nothing again / Create, release / She just don't feel the same / I asked and you answered / But you eat your words in frame / At last, discover
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Sleep Token – Higher
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[Verse 1] / You say you won't begin again / Capitulate and let me in / 'Cause I am a fire and you are dry as bone / You are taking your time / You are killing me slow / And I know
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Sleep Token – Thread the Needle
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[Verse 1] / Bury me inside this / Labyrinth bed / We can feel that time is / Dilated / [Chorus] / We can spend the night in / Fascination / You can thread the needle / Time and
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Sleep Token – Levitate
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[Verse 1] / I can lift you up / Your body is mostly blood / Like water, a perfect flood / Engulfing me again, oh / And I can tell you won't / Remember my cracking bones / The
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Sleep Token – Jericho
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[Verse 1] / Tread, ancient water salt / Like I / Sink, down like precious stones / [Refrain] / Until I wake I, dine on old encounters / Until / [Chorus] / You taste like new flesh
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Sleep Token – Give
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[Verse 1] / You take the dark and carve me out a home / I picture you when you are all alone / I know how we got here / I know how we got here / I am the shadow, you're a passenger
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Sleep Token – Telomeres
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[Verse 1] / You guide me in / To safety and silence, oh / As you breathe me out / I drink you in, oh / [Chorus] / And we go beyond the farthest reaches / Where the light bends and
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Sleep Token – Like That
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[Verse 1] / Trapped under the surface of your words / There is a new intention / New whispers that once could not be heard / Catching your intention / Wait, talking with braces on
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Sleep Token – Calcutta
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[Verse 1] / I am caught, tangled in / Wrapped and quartered / Tripping up and over / Time lived again / For just a moment / Missing pieces find me / [Pre-Chorus] / I sweat and I
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Sleep Token – Sugar
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[Verse 1] / And you play a twisted little game / But I know in a way / You need to complicate it / Believe that though we never eat / We still know how to feed / We still know how
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Sleep Token – Take Aim
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[Verse 1] / Wait, won't you wait for me? / Don't you bathe in rivers? / Don't you feel alive? / And when I see you waking up / And it sends me shivers / How you love like weapons
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Sleep Token – Distraction
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[Verse 1] / Oh, and I know / I can tell I'm falling further again / But I won't turn away, it's far too late for me / [Chorus] / 'Cause I am broken into fractions / Oh, and I am
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Sleep Token – DYWTYLM
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[Verse 1] / Do you roll with the waves? / Or do you duck into deep blue safety? / Is it always the same? / Do you wish that you loved me? / Do you pull at the chains? / Or do you
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Sleep Token – The Night Does Not Belong to God
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The opening track from Sleep Token’s first LP ‘Sundowning’.
It talks about those who do not follow Vessel’s deity, Sleep, and how he remembers their interactions until sunset, and
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Sleep Token – Aqua Regia
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[Verse 1] / Well, my love is an animal call / Cutting through the darkness, bouncing off the walls / Between teeth on a broken jaw / Following a blood trail, frothing at the maw
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Sleep Token – When the Bough Breaks
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[Verse 1] / You could stay alive / Just tell me that you notice / Even in the dark / The way I left you breathing / Sometimes when we touch / Everything we love resets / It's only
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Sleep Token – Jaws
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[Verse 1] / Stand under the stained glass and I will know it's you / The whites of your eyes burn from across the room / [Pre-Chorus] / And I'm not here to be the saviour you long
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Sleep Token – Drag Me Under
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[Verse 1] / And I know / The angels tonight are / As lost for words / As I am / To merely / Behold you / As we lie down together / [Chorus] / Drag me under again / Deep into your
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Sleep Token – Blood Sport
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[Verse 1] / I want to roll the numbers / I want to feel my stars align again / Even if the earth breaks like burnt skin / And the heavens just won't open up for me / Would you
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Sleep Token – Fields of Elation
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[Verse 1] / The daylight recedes in unison, this room / Buries the hours, like death in motion / [Chorus] / Nobody else can pull me out / The fields of elation, quiet and loamy / [
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Sleep Token – Missing Limbs
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[Verse 1] / Just let me know / If nowadays, the outer rounds of heaven don't / Keep up on the charm offensive anymore / Failing to remind you what you're living for / I'd give
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Sleep Token – Nazareth
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[Verse 1] / And I'll see you when the wrath comes / Knocking on your bedroom door with money / Building you a kingdom / Dripping from the open mouth, I'll show you / What you look
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Sleep Token – Rain
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[Verse 1] / For so long, I have waited / So long that I almost became / Just a stoic statue, fit for nobody / And I don't wanna get in your way / But I finally think I can say
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Sleep Token – Hey Ya
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[Verse 1] / My baby don't mess around / Because she loves me so, and this I know for sure / But does she really wanna / But can't stand to see me walk out the door? / Don't try to
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Sleep Token – Is it Really You?
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[Verse 1] / Face away / Deal with the pain / Your own way / How could they deal with the pain? / [Pre-Chorus] / I knew / It was mine too / And you? / Is it really you? / [Chorus
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Sleep Token – When The Party's Over - from the room below
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[Verse 1] / Don't you know I'm no good for you? / I've learned to lose you, can't afford to / Tore my shirt to stop you bleedin' / But nothin' ever stops you leavin' / [Chorus
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Sleep Token – The Love You Want
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[Verse 1] / You lie an inch apart on your own continuum / Now keep the freak show talk to a careful minimum / I'll find a different harbor to lay my anchor in / And you'll find a
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Sleep Token – Blood Sport - from the room below
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[Verse 1] / I want to roll the numbers / I want to feel my stars align again / Even if the earth breaks like burnt skin / And the heavens just won't open up for me / Would you
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Sleep Token – The Summoning
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[Refrain] / I've got a river running right into you / I've got a blood trail, red in the blue / Something you say or something you do / The taste of the divine / [Pre-Chorus] / You
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Sleep Token – Gods
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“Gods” is about false gods, gods who are given power through prayer to the said god, conjuring them into existence.
This is a theme commonly explored by Sleep Token, as their
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Sleep Token – Atlantic
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[Verse 1] / Call me when they bury bodies underwater / It's blue light over murder for me / Crumble like a temple, built from future daughters / To wasteland when the oceans recede
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Sleep Token – Euclid
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Euclid is the twelfth and final track on Sleep Token’s third album, Take Me Back To Eden. The track seems to conclude the trilogy of Sundowning, This Place Will Become Your Tomb
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Sleep Token – Alkaline
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[Verse 1] / Every once in a while, something changes / And she's changing me / It's too late for me now, I am altered / There is something beneath / [Chorus] / She's not acid nor
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Sleep Token – The Way That You Were
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[Verse 1] / We are not young enough to know / How to sit and say nothing like we would / And you are too tired to control / How you look like you feel like you should / [Chorus 1
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Sleep Token – Vore
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[Verse 1] / You have become the voice in my head / Only recourse we're left after death / Your viscera welcome me in / Welcome me in / My life is torn, my bones, they bleed / My
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Sleep Token – Mine
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[Verse 1] / I have waited / Paralysed by my own will / Viciously reminding me still / I'm born to believe / And I am certain, no / That you and I are crashing course / Driven by a
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Sleep Token – Chokehold
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[Verse 1] / When we were made / It was no accident / We were tangled up like branches in a flood / I come as a blade / A sacred guardian / So you keep me sharp and test my worth in
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Sleep Token – I Wanna Dance With Somebody - from the room below
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[Verse 1] / Clock strikes upon the hour / And the sun begins to fade / Still enough time to figure out / How to chase my blues away / I've done alright up 'til now / It's the light
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