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Sleeping At Last

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PERFORMING ARTISTS

Sleeping At Last

Sleeping At Last

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Ryan O'Neal

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Sleeping At Last

Sleeping At Last

Producer

Lyrics

Out there,

Blink and you’ll miss it,

Is the promised land

(or at least somewhere different).

Pressed up to the glass to see it-

But i get distracted by my own reflection.

Like a live-wire, hope flickers

Against the pitch black

In rich contrast,

Hypnotized by the horizon,

I hold out my hand-

I just want to build some kind of bridge

To where the source material lives.

I want to build,

Brick by brick, until i’m changed-

For a minute i’ll be endless,

For a minute i’ll be brave.

For a minute i’ll make sense

Of all of my mistakes.

I’ve poured over the blueprints,

I’ve stuck to the plan.

Even a little ahead of schedule

But still missing parts of who i am.

My active imagination

Fills in the empty space-

The pencil reaches wide

But like anything held too tight,

It breaks.

I just want to make

Some kind of mark,

Permanent ink

Right from the start.

I want to draw,

Line by line,

Until i am changed-

I just want to build some kind of bridge

To where the source material lives.

I want to build,

Brick by brick, until i’m changed-

For a minute i’ll be endless.

For a minute i’ll be brave.

For a minute i’ll make sense

Of all of my mistakes

And for a minute i’ll be endless,

For a minute i’ll be home,

For a minute i’ll make something

To forever call my own.

I’ll always wrestle with patience-

The dissonance of purgatory-

But i’ll try to make use of the tension

In this first and second act of my story.

Written by: Ryan O'Neal

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