Ask the mastermind behind all of them: Ryan O'Neal. He's the ONLY member left of Sleeping at Last. He writes the music under the old band name. He has a Twitter page. :-D Yes You're Welcome. :)
i love juxtaposition among senses in the song as it becomes softer/lighter when it is addressing loud, catastrophic events (at 2:09) "There was an earthquake." "There was an avalanche of change."
"the echo, as wide as the equator. Travels, through a world of built up anger. To late to pull itself together now..." this part of the entire song really reflects our world today...
Sleeping at last has some of the greatest poetry in their songs I've ever seen. Everything from existentialism to human's actions to the environment/society to human emotions. They paint human experience from different perspectives with the most vivid colors I've ever heard... These guys are nothing short of brilliant.
I feel this beautiful band sings a lot about reality and people don't recognize them because no one pays attention or wants to pay attention to reality, and live in an age of their own error because they are blind
JamieRose Walton 8 you can't blame people for trying to escape reality because sometimes that will end there pain and suffering from whatever is happening (btw no hate your beautiful)
I know many believe this song to be literal, which still sends such a powerful message (as all SAL songs do), but am I the only one who believes there’s something deeper going on here? Something more mental, as if that ‘glass house’ is his stability, his calm, his mind, and what he’s putting out of his mind is all the bad, the earthquake and the avalanche.
What I like about their songs, is that you can interpreted in many different ways. I can tell you something hysterical about it, fictional, religious, mental and realistic (I mean, about what's happening today) so, yes
Research the gods associated with with names of these songs... and the alchemical applications of these metals as well. They are singing us the truth... what do you think glass house means it’s the dome firmament. We are being shown the way home by our music, literature, religion, but we must move past the cloak(literal interpretation) and see what the cloak hides. The truth is “For those with the eyes to see, and the ears to hear”
You probably already know this, but at the moment he's doing an album on the enneagram types (sort of personality types) and what you're describing is a very "nine" thing to do (which is his type!)
I love this artist. He manages to capture all the thoughts we try and push to the back of our minds and collects them into a beautiful, heartbreaking song that inspires and enlightens us about our ways and to never let us forget them. But even with such a scary subject he is bringing to matter, he mentions a solution, or a rebirth that is quite possible in such a scary and real situation. The purity and serenity of this song brings me chills every time I listen and take in the deep lyrics. It is so very beautiful and I love it
:D Cool!! I love their songs, they're amazing. I also found another good one a while ago after I posted this called SATURN. They just have so many good songs.
*a countdown begins until the dynamite gives in* *too late to pull itself together now* *we were so afraid we cried ourselves a hurricane* these are some of my favorites from this song
I'm listening to these songs and trying to decide if I have a favorite, but I can't because they're just all so breathtaking. Honestly the most beautiful songs I have ever heard
This song has so many meanings hidden within it, able to be interpreted by the listener. That is artistry, when a piece can speak to people of every kind in different ways and bring them together under its power.
This man is seriously one of the best currently at composition and creating meaningful melodies and harmonies. I truly hope he keeps it up for decades to come.
i feel that this song portrays a message that makes us aware of messes that we have the potential to create and our awareness will scare us all to death and until death will we no longer have to worry about blaming ourselves for destroying our only planet we live on
Aesthetic: - person standing in front of drawn wings/chalk - dirt covered hands holding gold coins - a person on the edge of a cliff - two strangers standing amidst the ruins of a life together - a house on ththe edge of a sea - whirlpools - one lone person in a pew - staring into the water as a massive wave approaches- unafraid
Heather Law ooh maybe for the top one if it was on a video not a picture it could begin raining which washes away the chalk wings but the person just keeps standing there
Ooh yes, that’s a beautiful image. If we want to continue the video instead of a still image, a shot of the water running into a drain full of multicoloured chalk.
It feels like when you keep trying to hold it together until you just can't. You know everything is breaking and being destroyed around you through build-up and denial. So you keep turning away and trying to hold your world together until something snaps, you hit bottom, and you break.
Sleeping At Last is the group whose songs are like the soundtrack to my life. As the main character, I would never hear the songs played at the 'appropriate' moments. But I listen to them before and after, so that when the time comes, they reveal themselves in my mind and I can almost hear them as if in a movie.
My interpretation: this song is about a man that digs into the ground and finds something precious like a mineral or petrol. He knows that it can be used for many things but also that it's limited and it's not sustainable. Nevertheless he sells it knowing that this will bring doom and hoping to keep it a secret. So he builds his family a house, a house the made of glass. it offers a barrier that keeps reality out. The reality of a world whose screams echo in the air. And while outside the result of this man's actions are wildfires, avalanches and hurricanes his family is oblivious and sheltered. His house though, because is made of glass, could crumble at any moment. So we are all doomed, cut out from our life line. On the brink of destruction. But until that happens we think we are safe...
Ive seen several people commenting what they interpret the song as, so here’s my version Also, I left a few things out because I feel they would be self explanatory and easy to understand “Dig till my shovel tells a secret” The artist getting to know a person. He learns their secrets in the process. “Swear to the earth that I will keep it” Promising that he’ll keep this persons secrets, with the “earth” being that person. “Let my change of heart occur” Knowing the person better now, they’re feelings start to change “Sold soon after the appraisal” They are now sold on the fact that this person is different than previously thought, and that they like them “The hammer struck the auction table louder than anything I’ve ever heard” This somewhat goes along with the last one, the writer making a clear decision at this point and starting a relationship with the person they got to know. “Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house.” Despite having gotten to know the person and liking them, the relationship is unstable and threatening to collapse “But I put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage” This one is kinda self explanatory. They’re trying to ignore the fact that the relationship is unstable. “To live without a lifeline” The one they started a relationship with stopped helping and/or supporting the artist “I bend the definition of faith to exonerate my blind eye” They are trying to call what they are doing “faith” so as to ignore and redeem the fact that they were ignorant “Till the sirens sound I’m safe” Until things starts to get really bad, they think they are safe “My family’s taking shelter” Their family is starting to shut away the person that the artist is in a relationship with “A countdown begins until the dynamite gives in” It’s only a matter of time now before things get really bad The echo as wide as the equator travels through a world of build up anger” The world of built of anger is the toxic relationship, and the echo is a reminder of how things used to be, happy and alright. “There was an earthquake, there was an avalanche of change” Because of the “echo” they both realized how bad things had become. Because of this things began to change drastically. “The wildfires grow and grow, till a brand new world takes shape” In this line, the wildfires(which don’t necessarily signify anger and hate, but getting rid of the old and replacing it with the new) are starting to spread, causing the relationship to transform into something better
I've listened to this song so many times but this is the first I'm actually hearing it. "I bend the definition of faith to exonerate my blind eye" Excuse me while I contemplate life while staring at my ceiling for 7 hours T_ T
I love sleeping at last, they have a unique way of using words, and songs with good meanings to it. There are some songs that have good meaning, but they give the meaning in the form of soft melodic instrumental and metaphors and such. The first song I've ever heard from them is Saturn, I love every song they've made. All the elements of music they used is all forged together to create this masterpiece of song. You can actually feel the emotion in their songs. I can't remember a time when a song actually took me back and made me remember memories and actually made me emotional, weather it was a good emotional or bad... Their songs make me laugh, cry, remember, go back in time, I just love their music so much. They are a unique group. I could listen to their music on repeat for years at a time and never get tired of the message. The world needs more musicians like this.
That final chorus leaves me speechless in a way few songs make me feel! The power of Ryan’s voice is absolutely faultless, making Earth one of his finest masterpieces! Saturn is certainly Ryan’s most popular song (and for good reason!) but Earth makes me want to sob my heart out. It’s jaw-droppingly beautiful and powerful in every way! 🌎
This is probably one of the most intelligent ways of depicting society’s view on climate change. It really does show how as a society most of us ignore the climate crisis, because it’s easier to turn a blind eye to it then actually do something about it.
I heard a couple of his songs before but this will forever be my fav. It has this very special life and it sounds so awkward but i feel like im in another universe which is way better them this and wooow. This man is so talented and this song amazing
this song begins with the singer digging until the earth decides to provide him with "a secret", upon which the singer promises to keep it and promptly sells it, knowing full well what'll happen next and feeling guilty about it (though not enough to stop the secret from being auctioned off, supported by "louder than anything i've ever heard"). in the line "exonerate my blind eye", along with "but i put it out of my mind" from the chorus for this first part both imply that the singer knew of the disasters that would follow after he sold the secret but deliberately chose not to think about it. the second part is how the auctioneers/whoever he sold the secret to continue "digging" for more of that secret, blasting the earth with dynamite. "fire down the wire/til the dynamite gives in". this once again angers the earth, and it's the straw that breaks the camel's back. "a world of built up anger" - representing all the previous things humanity has done to it. "too late to pull itself together now" is the song of fury the shattered earth screams at humanity for this and everything else, finally breaking apart. the third part is this final disaster - the earth, having finally been pushed to the breaking point, ripping humanity apart for good. all the lines in this part correspond to or mention natural disasters - wildfires, floods, hurricanes, avalanches. it especially focuses on change - "an avalanche of change" terrifying the humans. the humans bring themselves together in the face of this fury, "folded our hands and prayed" that it would end. note that the song does not make clear whether or not the change is good or bad - it's just change, and that scares people. because of the human point of view of the song, the change is made out to be terrifying and emotional, but i'd like to believe it was for the better for the earth and ultimately humanity as a whole. finally, the chorus is just a space in between - a memorial to the way humanity lied to itself, put the myriad warning signs out of their minds and bent faith to form a shield between their glass house and the destruction they had wrought. trying to protect this fragile thing from everything they'd done to the earth.
As a person sold and taken away for decades "The hanmer struck the auction table... louder... than anything I've ever heard" no words to how many chills that gives me every.single.time... I think my fav song by far... a real tear jerker though...
“Fault lines tremble underneath my glasshouse, But i put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage" How does sal everytime manage to make me feel so much all at once🖤🖤!
these songs will never fail to astonish me to the core. this came on while i was doing coursework and i physically paused, put down my pencil, and switched tabs from my textbook to this. i just needed to take a moment, to breath and listen to this.
sorry i just logged onto this account properly for the first time in ages!! i've been struck with my autoimmune disease & depression (yet again) but i do plan to make more :)
Nevoir: you probably were wanting to direct that to the writer of the song; Sleeping at Last has a TH-cam channel, you should comment on his videos and give him some song ideas! :)
it's not really related to this song, but it's about a schizophrenic guy who thinks the secret to life houses in his head and another guy who was a rape victim and was traumatized by that. they end up in the same mental institute and fall in love. it's a fanfiction though, so the two guys are real people used for the story, which not everyone likes. the line from this song just reminds me of it because there's one scene where the schizophrenic is talking with someone who claims to be able to read someones future from their hand, and tells him he shouldn't even be alive because he doesn't have a lifeline (one of the lines on the palm of your hand)
This is one of those songs that can mean so many different things to so many different people. "Till the sirens sound, I'm safe" like how we do nothing but ignore and put off the imnent disaster on our horizon. We wont freak out until after it is too late. It already is.
That's amazing how thes words speak to us in a language we all know... the language of forsakenness! We know we gota change and we just pretend everything is ok!
I feel like this song is about us all being fragile and vulnerable and hurting like the glass house but we put on a facade and are fake but it all builds up and eventually comes out some how, “there was an earthquake an avalanche of change, we were so afraid we cried ourselves a hurricane “ . So powerful and I love how everyone here is taking their own meanings from this .
In the story I'm currently reading, there is something called the Calling. It's when one's heart calls out to the other, meaning that they are basically made for each other. The main character has currently is under a ton of stress because of things that her closest friends have found out about her and her three brothers. They had confronted her elder brother, hurting both of them deeply, and that group is now allowed no where near the family. Problem is, one of the people in that group is her One, she just doesn't know it yet. I was listening to this song as he took all of his rage out in a holographic battle training, watching as he tore through it as he remembered the things she had said to him after he had tried to apologize. He began heavily chastising himself, remembering words she had said. This song heavily impacted the scene as I watched the usually laid back man tear through the holoforms in complete unbridled rage.
This is one of my favorites (Right after Saturn and Light) the lyrics are absolutely amazing. You could easily put these songs together and have a perfectly painted picture.
Incredible! I have already listened to "Saturn", has this band made a song for every planet? Wow I have to hear them all! I wonder if they have made one with Pluto too :-D it's my favorite but I doubt it.
The imagery of a glass house built over fault lines is so powerful. Because all it takes is for those fault lines to move too much and that earthquake will shatter that glass house.
I think that sections about the glass house is simply man’s reputation and how little it takes for it to crumble, this man chose to stay in his glass house while nature, or rumors was set to destroy it; unlike him, his family left their reputations and lies to take shelter in peace and comfort. My other thought about this has similar aspects, the glass house being a reputation. Pride. Except I’ll go more in depth to it. Like some other commenters, perhaps it is about oil or gems or something of the Earth that they’d promised to save, to keep secret, but instead sold it very very quickly. People have been putting off global warming for some while now. ‘But I put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage..’ Meaning, they did put it out of their mind because it was just another problem and they didn’t want to accept it, but deep down they were afraid. I think this is Mother Nature making a comeback and letting the effects domino (like in the song). Once natural disasters begin to occur so frequently, Homo sapiens began to realize that they had done this to themselves and many many other species. They cried themselves a hurricane. They had enough tears and remorse and regret to do so, but I think that was more of a metaphor. Floods. Tidal Waves. Earthquakes. Avalanche (obviously the lifestyle for everyone is going to change). Wildfires. Hurricane. Dynamite. They prayed to many, whoever came to mind to save them, to save Earth, and for forgiveness of they wrongs that brought this disastrous, unprecedented world. But I don’t think anyone came.
I'm sitting here thinking about how incredibly well these lyrics relate to the world right now. "There was an earthquake, There was an avalanche of change. We were so afraid, We cried ourselves a hurricane." But it's good to see people helping others. Even if contact isn't possible, life finds a way to go on.
Of all their songs, this is probably the best one. Yet, Saturn is the one that gets used for everything.. Not that it’s a bad song. Honestly, this is the song I play when I’m sad or angry.
over eight years i have this album in my mobilephone and i will never get enough of it. I'm sad, that english is not my mother-language, because i have got a feeling that i still can't have this poetry so deep under my skin as english speaking people.
Just because I can't stay away from this song, I felt the need to show my own interpretation of it. It reads, to me, as a person who's turned their back on God, or faith in general. The imagery of digging, of being "sold soon after the appraisal": they read like he's burying faith, trying to forget about it; that he's sold himself off to the Devil or the faithless. The song is titled Earth because there's so much imagery about the power of the Earth in it. The "fault lines tremble underneath" his "glass house" - the house without foundation, the transparent house that everyone can look in and tell isn't safe, but he convinces himself is by putting "it out of my mind long enough to call it 'courage' to live without a lifeline". He glorifies faithlessness by saying it's courage, that by living by his own power alone he's somehow being brave. In reality, the house could collapse in on him at any moment, but he turns a "blind eye" and "bends the definition of faith" to fit him situation, so he doesn't have to change. Thus comes the thesis of the song: "til the sirens sound, I'm safe". As long as he turns at the last second; as long as he makes it right before the door closes; he's safe. He can live and be as he likes. But emergencies don't come with warning. They strike without reason. And even WITH the warnings - with the trembling faultlines, and the echoes - he still ignores them, waiting for the fated "sirens" that have already come and he refuses to listen. I can't quite put it into the words I'd like, but this song makes my soul shake every time I listen.
I dig till my shovel tells a secret Swear to the earth that I will keep it Brush off the dirt And let my change of heart occur Sold soon after the appraisal The hammer struck the auction table Louder than anything I've ever heard Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house But I put it out of my mind Long enough to call it courage To live without a lifeline I bend the definition Of faith to exonerate my blind eye Till the sirens sound, I'm safe Meanwhile, my family's taking shelter The sparks send the fire down the wire A countdown begins Until the dynamite gives in The echo, as wide as the equator Travels through a world of built up anger Too late to pull itself together now Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house But I put it out of my mind Long enough to call it courage To live without a lifeline I bend the definition Of faith to exonerate my blind eye Till the sirens sound, I'm safe There was an earthquake There was an avalanche of change We were so afraid We cried ourselves a hurricane There were floods Tidal waves over us So we folded our hands and prayed Like a domino These wildfires grow and grow Until a brand new world takes shape Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house But I put it out of my mind Long enough to call it courage To live without a lifeline I bend the definition Of faith to exonerate my blind eye Till the sirens sound, I'm safe Until the sirens sound, I'm safe Until the sirens sound, I'm safe
This song is filled with such Anxiety and Desperation while the other planet songs from SAL are so captivating, with Saturn being Euphoric. I think that says something.
Personally this song means a lot to me. Im not gonna cry woe is me.. But I've had it rough, and I wouldn't give in to my emotions, because i thought it was weak. When in reality fighting how i felt was hurting me more. I was becoming bitter. Unsympathetic. Etc. Etc. But then i found my "soul mate" (i know, what a queer term).. Anyways so i fell in love and i had to learn to be open. Because you cant have a boyfriend and be angry all the time and expect him to just be cool with it. (Mind you im a very angry 19 year old girl, i know thats young to be bitter but when you struggle all your life... Ya know. Again not crying woe is me) so basically this song to me is about being "strong" all your life and finally breaking under all that emotion. Idk just me.
"but i put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage"
OOF my heart
But i put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage, to live withou a lifeline
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we cried ourselves a hurricane is such a powerful line.
to be honest all of it is powerful ;-;
strong power thank you (SORRY HAD TO AFTER I SAW YOUR PFP)
I read this as the lyrics came up xD
The lyrics speak to my soul
I'm seeing a bunch of kpop profile pictures. Including mine 😂 we all got good taste in music.
These lyrics man... poetry from the heart.
Funk Commander, I saw the phrase "Real music is not on the radio" on Tumblr once, but it never made so much sense how it does now
Tacy Dantas, agreed.
Ugh- check out their song Saturn. It’s absolute art.
They're leaving me speechless with 99% of their songs. How is it possible to write such brilliance
Ask the mastermind behind all of them: Ryan O'Neal. He's the ONLY member left of Sleeping at Last. He writes the music under the old band name. He has a Twitter page. :-D Yes You're Welcome. :)
Where is the 1% song I must find it
@@jacoblezurex196 the songs that never got out
oml now im obsessed with sleeping at last
Omg so am i
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Me too, sleeping at last is so good
Welcome to the club boi.
Listen to Son and Three. Their by far my favorites
i love juxtaposition among senses in the song as it becomes softer/lighter when it is addressing loud, catastrophic events (at 2:09)
"There was an earthquake."
"There was an avalanche of change."
In a way, it does make it more impactful because it sticks out more. Thanks for pointing that out!
saturn and earth are officially my two favorite songs in the whole world.
Yeahh they're my favorites too
try Venus, mercury, mars, Neptune, north, east, pluto, heart. they are all just too beautiful!!!
🤍🤍🤍
Same!
And Mars
"the echo, as wide as the equator. Travels, through a world of built up anger. To late to pull itself together now..."
this part of the entire song really reflects our world today...
Sleeping at last has some of the greatest poetry in their songs I've ever seen. Everything from existentialism to human's actions to the environment/society to human emotions. They paint human experience from different perspectives with the most vivid colors I've ever heard... These guys are nothing short of brilliant.
I feel this beautiful band sings a lot about reality and people don't recognize them because no one pays attention or wants to pay attention to reality, and live in an age of their own error because they are blind
JamieRose Walton 8
you can't blame people for trying to escape reality because sometimes that will end there pain and suffering from whatever is happening (btw no hate your beautiful)
I dont think they're a band. I think he used to be
it’s just one person
I think the case is moreso that a lot of people just don't care about it enough. It's sad, but people can and will be selfish.
People just have garbage taste in music
oh my ... now this is real music the kind that makes you feel something .. and these words are poetry
I know many believe this song to be literal, which still sends such a powerful message (as all SAL songs do), but am I the only one who believes there’s something deeper going on here? Something more mental, as if that ‘glass house’ is his stability, his calm, his mind, and what he’s putting out of his mind is all the bad, the earthquake and the avalanche.
me
What I like about their songs, is that you can interpreted in many different ways. I can tell you something hysterical about it, fictional, religious, mental and realistic (I mean, about what's happening today) so, yes
Research the gods associated with with names of these songs... and the alchemical applications of these metals as well. They are singing us the truth... what do you think glass house means it’s the dome firmament. We are being shown the way home by our music, literature, religion, but we must move past the cloak(literal interpretation) and see what the cloak hides. The truth is “For those with the eyes to see, and the ears to hear”
You probably already know this, but at the moment he's doing an album on the enneagram types (sort of personality types) and what you're describing is a very "nine" thing to do (which is his type!)
Yeah. I always viewed this song as a metaphor for living with mental illness/depression.
I love this artist. He manages to capture all the thoughts we try and push to the back of our minds and collects them into a beautiful, heartbreaking song that inspires and enlightens us about our ways and to never let us forget them. But even with such a scary subject he is bringing to matter, he mentions a solution, or a rebirth that is quite possible in such a scary and real situation. The purity and serenity of this song brings me chills every time I listen and take in the deep lyrics. It is so very beautiful and I love it
I am blown away by this amazing comment. I 100% agree.
I'm honestly not sure how I would've gotten through some of my worst nights without their music. They are truly magnificent.
One of my favorite songs from them, the other is Neptune.
MINE TOO!!!
:D
Cool!! I love their songs, they're amazing. I also found another good one a while ago after I posted this called SATURN. They just have so many good songs.
Kymberlee Crosley I agree but my number one is Pluto
Saturn is incredibly good too
It has been a long time since a song made me instantly cry, and Neptune did just that the first time I listened to it.
If you listen real closely, you can hear his voice waver. You can hear the raw emotion that everyone misses out in popular music these days
*a countdown begins until the dynamite gives in*
*too late to pull itself together now*
*we were so afraid we cried ourselves a hurricane*
these are some of my favorites from this song
I'm listening to these songs and trying to decide if I have a favorite, but I can't because they're just all so breathtaking. Honestly the most beautiful songs I have ever heard
They're so sad, but so epic you don´t even wanna cry
Maya I. Earth and Saturn (in my opinion) are two of the most beautiful
Maya I. In my opinion - Light and Saturn
Neptune and Saturn are my favourites tbh.
Light and Saturn are the best for me
This song has so many meanings hidden within it, able to be interpreted by the listener. That is artistry, when a piece can speak to people of every kind in different ways and bring them together under its power.
This song explains the world's situation right now in such a beautiful yet sad way.
I love Sleeping at last, I only discovered them last year but Im obsessed, they have such a beautiful way with words
i discovered them a few days ago
This man is seriously one of the best currently at composition and creating meaningful melodies and harmonies. I truly hope he keeps it up for decades to come.
i feel that this song portrays a message that makes us aware of messes that we have the potential to create and our awareness will scare us all to death and until death will we no longer have to worry about blaming ourselves for destroying our only planet we live on
Ats my purpose of even trying to b a friend f hers idk
Aesthetic:
- person standing in front of drawn wings/chalk
- dirt covered hands holding gold coins
- a person on the edge of a cliff
- two strangers standing amidst the ruins of a life together
- a house on ththe edge of a sea
- whirlpools
- one lone person in a pew
- staring into the water as a massive wave approaches- unafraid
Heather Law ooh maybe for the top one if it was on a video not a picture it could begin raining which washes away the chalk wings but the person just keeps standing there
A young man grabbing his head as the glass house shakes and we see the earth breaking under him.
I was looking for your comment!!!! I read the one one another song and loved it
Or someone being taken over by such strong darkness it starts to define them as a being. You see whats on the inside out as well
Ooh yes, that’s a beautiful image. If we want to continue the video instead of a still image, a shot of the water running into a drain full of multicoloured chalk.
No one is saying it but you did extremely well with this video the music, editing and clear font and picture! Great Job!
It feels like when you keep trying to hold it together until you just can't. You know everything is breaking and being destroyed around you through build-up and denial. So you keep turning away and trying to hold your world together until something snaps, you hit bottom, and you break.
You have one of the most insightful comments here. I think you nailed it. Couldn't have written it better myself.
You can tell yourself over and over and over again that everything is fine… until it isn’t, and you have to live through the storm you’ve created.
simply amazing, this kind of music is the reason why I'm still okay with living in this generation.
Sleeping At Last is the group whose songs are like the soundtrack to my life. As the main character, I would never hear the songs played at the 'appropriate' moments. But I listen to them before and after, so that when the time comes, they reveal themselves in my mind and I can almost hear them as if in a movie.
My interpretation: this song is about a man that digs into the ground and finds something precious like a mineral or petrol. He knows that it can be used for many things but also that it's limited and it's not sustainable. Nevertheless he sells it knowing that this will bring doom and hoping to keep it a secret. So he builds his family a house, a house the made of glass. it offers a barrier that keeps reality out. The reality of a world whose screams echo in the air. And while outside the result of this man's actions are wildfires, avalanches and hurricanes his family is oblivious and sheltered. His house though, because is made of glass, could crumble at any moment. So we are all doomed, cut out from our life line. On the brink of destruction. But until that happens we think we are safe...
Ive seen several people commenting what they interpret the song as, so here’s my version
Also, I left a few things out because I feel they would be self explanatory and easy to understand
“Dig till my shovel tells a secret”
The artist getting to know a person. He learns their secrets in the process.
“Swear to the earth that I will keep it”
Promising that he’ll keep this persons secrets, with the “earth” being that person.
“Let my change of heart occur”
Knowing the person better now, they’re feelings start to change
“Sold soon after the appraisal”
They are now sold on the fact that this person is different than previously thought, and that they like them
“The hammer struck the auction table louder than anything I’ve ever heard”
This somewhat goes along with the last one, the writer making a clear decision at this point and starting a relationship with the person they got to know.
“Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house.”
Despite having gotten to know the person and liking them, the relationship is unstable and threatening to collapse
“But I put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage”
This one is kinda self explanatory. They’re trying to ignore the fact that the relationship is unstable.
“To live without a lifeline”
The one they started a relationship with stopped helping and/or supporting the artist
“I bend the definition of faith to exonerate my blind eye”
They are trying to call what they are doing “faith” so as to ignore and redeem the fact that they were ignorant
“Till the sirens sound I’m safe”
Until things starts to get really bad, they think they are safe
“My family’s taking shelter”
Their family is starting to shut away the person that the artist is in a relationship with
“A countdown begins until the dynamite gives in”
It’s only a matter of time now before things get really bad
The echo as wide as the equator travels through a world of build up anger”
The world of built of anger is the toxic relationship, and the echo is a reminder of how things used to be, happy and alright.
“There was an earthquake, there was an avalanche of change”
Because of the “echo” they both realized how bad things had become. Because of this things began to change drastically.
“The wildfires grow and grow, till a brand new world takes shape”
In this line, the wildfires(which don’t necessarily signify anger and hate, but getting rid of the old and replacing it with the new) are starting to spread, causing the relationship to transform into something better
damn if thats only how actual toxic relationships turn out
One of my favorite interpretations
It's not really about relationships lmao you went too deep my dude lmao
I've listened to this song so many times but this is the first I'm actually hearing it.
"I bend the definition of faith to exonerate my blind eye"
Excuse me while I contemplate life while staring at my ceiling for 7 hours T_ T
I dont understand this line, could you explain it ?
I love sleeping at last, they have a unique way of using words, and songs with good meanings to it. There are some songs that have good meaning, but they give the meaning in the form of soft melodic instrumental and metaphors and such. The first song I've ever heard from them is Saturn, I love every song they've made. All the elements of music they used is all forged together to create this masterpiece of song. You can actually feel the emotion in their songs. I can't remember a time when a song actually took me back and made me remember memories and actually made me emotional, weather it was a good emotional or bad... Their songs make me laugh, cry, remember, go back in time, I just love their music so much. They are a unique group. I could listen to their music on repeat for years at a time and never get tired of the message. The world needs more musicians like this.
"But I put it out of my mind, long enough to call it courage, to live without a life line"
Beautiful... and very real
That final chorus leaves me speechless in a way few songs make me feel! The power of Ryan’s voice is absolutely faultless, making Earth one of his finest masterpieces!
Saturn is certainly Ryan’s most popular song (and for good reason!) but Earth makes me want to sob my heart out. It’s jaw-droppingly beautiful and powerful in every way! 🌎
This is probably one of the most intelligent ways of depicting society’s view on climate change. It really does show how as a society most of us ignore the climate crisis, because it’s easier to turn a blind eye to it then actually do something about it.
I heard a couple of his songs before but this will forever be my fav. It has this very special life and it sounds so awkward but i feel like im in another universe which is way better them this and wooow. This man is so talented and this song amazing
The best song, possibly ever.
Just Ignore Me --scratch the last part.
this song begins with the singer digging until the earth decides to provide him with "a secret", upon which the singer promises to keep it and promptly sells it, knowing full well what'll happen next and feeling guilty about it (though not enough to stop the secret from being auctioned off, supported by "louder than anything i've ever heard"). in the line "exonerate my blind eye", along with "but i put it out of my mind" from the chorus for this first part both imply that the singer knew of the disasters that would follow after he sold the secret but deliberately chose not to think about it.
the second part is how the auctioneers/whoever he sold the secret to continue "digging" for more of that secret, blasting the earth with dynamite. "fire down the wire/til the dynamite gives in". this once again angers the earth, and it's the straw that breaks the camel's back. "a world of built up anger" - representing all the previous things humanity has done to it. "too late to pull itself together now" is the song of fury the shattered earth screams at humanity for this and everything else, finally breaking apart.
the third part is this final disaster - the earth, having finally been pushed to the breaking point, ripping humanity apart for good. all the lines in this part correspond to or mention natural disasters - wildfires, floods, hurricanes, avalanches. it especially focuses on change - "an avalanche of change" terrifying the humans. the humans bring themselves together in the face of this fury, "folded our hands and prayed" that it would end.
note that the song does not make clear whether or not the change is good or bad - it's just change, and that scares people. because of the human point of view of the song, the change is made out to be terrifying and emotional, but i'd like to believe it was for the better for the earth and ultimately humanity as a whole.
finally, the chorus is just a space in between - a memorial to the way humanity lied to itself, put the myriad warning signs out of their minds and bent faith to form a shield between their glass house and the destruction they had wrought. trying to protect this fragile thing from everything they'd done to the earth.
That’s a beautiful way to put it.
This song makes me think of all the pain humans inflict on each other. Meanwhile the helpless and innocent people can do nothing but duck for cover
Even though I know this band not that long, every time I listen to them it feels like I'm coming home. Am I the only one?
No, you’re not. They are home for me too.
As a person sold and taken away for decades "The hanmer struck the auction table... louder... than anything I've ever heard" no words to how many chills that gives me every.single.time... I think my fav song by far... a real tear jerker though...
yes omg i can not stop replaying it. chills. every. single. time. i don’t think there is a song better than this one.
“Fault lines tremble underneath my glasshouse,
But i put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage"
How does sal everytime manage to make me feel so much all at once🖤🖤!
Sleeping at Last and Aquillo are my favorite bands
YES QUEEN
Oof you just gave me a new band. Thank you, you're a saint ❤️
I bet if anyone screenshots a lyric sentence it will look like a cool wallpaper background.
The thing I like most about these songs is how visual they are, every lyric paints a picture in your mind.
This is the type of music that i love discovering. Great artist!
These lyrics speak for themselves. This is what we need to hear more
this is my favorite song ever.
amazing. poetry at its best
I love this!!! the picture is 👌👌👌 and the song is 👌👌👌 and ur editing is also👌👌👌
sleeping at last? you could have just called yourself the solar system
they write more than songs named after planets, and the songs aren't really about the planets, they just follow a theme.
LMAO
“She’s dead, Scar.
You won.”
How did that happen....? Howd the guy with no friends win...?
these songs will never fail to astonish me to the core. this came on while i was doing coursework and i physically paused, put down my pencil, and switched tabs from my textbook to this. i just needed to take a moment, to breath and listen to this.
I swear these songs take my breath way 😍they make me feel warm inside
Sleeping at Last and Crown the Empire are my favorite bands
I love this song so much and it came up while I was listening to music today.
With recent events going on in the world it hits alot harder.
Please make more of these for atlas :D
sorry i just logged onto this account properly for the first time in ages!! i've been struck with my autoimmune disease & depression (yet again) but i do plan to make more :)
Hope you're getting better now. 'With shortness of breath i'll explain the infinite, how rare and beautiful it truly is to exist'.
nicole meen will fire
Nevoir: you probably were wanting to direct that to the writer of the song; Sleeping at Last has a TH-cam channel, you should comment on his videos and give him some song ideas! :)
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I associate with song. I interpret it as the person convincing themselves their okay until they reach absolute rock bottom.
yep. Exactly what I got from it, the very first time I heard it. Probably because I can relate to it entirely.
That one person without a soul disliked this ;-;
Im sorry, I have no soul...BUT EVEN I LOVE THIS!! (lol)
True that
I can't help but think of the book 'A Splitting of the Mind' whenever I hear the lyric 'to live without a lifeline.'
Hysteriamoon_ Draws, what is this book about?
it's not really related to this song, but it's about a schizophrenic guy who thinks the secret to life houses in his head and another guy who was a rape victim and was traumatized by that. they end up in the same mental institute and fall in love. it's a fanfiction though, so the two guys are real people used for the story, which not everyone likes. the line from this song just reminds me of it because there's one scene where the schizophrenic is talking with someone who claims to be able to read someones future from their hand, and tells him he shouldn't even be alive because he doesn't have a lifeline (one of the lines on the palm of your hand)
tRiGgErEd
I just finished that fic oh dear god. My heart.
I know this comment is old lol but damn A Splitting of The Mind was beautiful *and* it fucked me up.
SAL. Lyrics are truly a thing of beauty.
I swear this music just made me cry. I'm crying and don't even know why. Wow.
This is music in its best shape.
This is one of those songs that can mean so many different things to so many different people. "Till the sirens sound, I'm safe" like how we do nothing but ignore and put off the imnent disaster on our horizon. We wont freak out until after it is too late. It already is.
Every lyric is so well thought out, truly "earth" was the right title for this song
That's amazing how thes words speak to us in a language we all know... the language of forsakenness! We know we gota change and we just pretend everything is ok!
Sleeping at last's music sends shivers down to my soul.
I love how in all the albums the song titles are all connected
I feel like this song is about us all being fragile and vulnerable and hurting like the glass house but we put on a facade and are fake but it all builds up and eventually comes out some how, “there was an earthquake an avalanche of change, we were so afraid we cried ourselves a hurricane “ . So powerful and I love how everyone here is taking their own meanings from this .
guys - this is the hundredth time im listening to this and ---- it's giving me a very Reign-ish vibe?? like it's just this one time???
In the story I'm currently reading, there is something called the Calling. It's when one's heart calls out to the other, meaning that they are basically made for each other. The main character has currently is under a ton of stress because of things that her closest friends have found out about her and her three brothers. They had confronted her elder brother, hurting both of them deeply, and that group is now allowed no where near the family. Problem is, one of the people in that group is her One, she just doesn't know it yet. I was listening to this song as he took all of his rage out in a holographic battle training, watching as he tore through it as he remembered the things she had said to him after he had tried to apologize. He began heavily chastising himself, remembering words she had said. This song heavily impacted the scene as I watched the usually laid back man tear through the holoforms in complete unbridled rage.
RisingDusk what is the book called?
RisingDusk what book is that ?
watched or read?
Whatś the name of the book?
RisingDusk book?
this is my new favorite song
This is one of my favorites (Right after Saturn and Light) the lyrics are absolutely amazing. You could easily put these songs together and have a perfectly painted picture.
i was listening to this album while reading the hunger games and now this song makes me so sad but also it’s so beautiful
Incredible! I have already listened to "Saturn", has this band made a song for every planet? Wow I have to hear them all! I wonder if they have made one with Pluto too :-D it's my favorite but I doubt it.
they have :D
Yeah. This is one of the best but I also like Mars, Jupiter and pluto.
Listening to sleeping at last just makes me want to draw every thing on my mind
this was my favorite song 6 years ago and i am just now listening to it again for the first time in years. so beautiful
This song is underrated, is a awesome song.
The imagery of a glass house built over fault lines is so powerful. Because all it takes is for those fault lines to move too much and that earthquake will shatter that glass house.
I think that sections about the glass house is simply man’s reputation and how little it takes for it to crumble, this man chose to stay in his glass house while nature, or rumors was set to destroy it; unlike him, his family left their reputations and lies to take shelter in peace and comfort.
My other thought about this has similar aspects, the glass house being a reputation. Pride.
Except I’ll go more in depth to it.
Like some other commenters, perhaps it is about oil or gems or something of the Earth that they’d promised to save, to keep secret, but instead sold it very very quickly.
People have been putting off global warming for some while now. ‘But I put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage..’ Meaning, they did put it out of their mind because it was just another problem and they didn’t want to accept it, but deep down they were afraid. I think this is Mother Nature making a comeback and letting the effects domino (like in the song). Once natural disasters begin to occur so frequently, Homo sapiens began to realize that they had done this to themselves and many many other species.
They cried themselves a hurricane.
They had enough tears and remorse and regret to do so, but I think that was more of a metaphor.
Floods.
Tidal Waves.
Earthquakes.
Avalanche (obviously the lifestyle for everyone is going to change).
Wildfires.
Hurricane.
Dynamite.
They prayed to many, whoever came to mind to save them, to save Earth, and for forgiveness of they wrongs that brought this disastrous, unprecedented world.
But I don’t think anyone came.
I'm sitting here thinking about how incredibly well these lyrics relate to the world right now.
"There was an earthquake,
There was an avalanche of change.
We were so afraid,
We cried ourselves a hurricane."
But it's good to see people helping others. Even if contact isn't possible, life finds a way to go on.
Listening to this in virus lockdown, so appropriate...
Of all their songs, this is probably the best one. Yet, Saturn is the one that gets used for everything.. Not that it’s a bad song.
Honestly, this is the song I play when I’m sad or angry.
this is so powerful
over eight years i have this album in my mobilephone and i will never get enough of it. I'm sad, that english is not my mother-language, because i have got a feeling that i still can't have this poetry so deep under my skin as english speaking people.
As a Turk, I discovered this song after the earthquake. It really hits me...
Just because I can't stay away from this song, I felt the need to show my own interpretation of it.
It reads, to me, as a person who's turned their back on God, or faith in general. The imagery of digging, of being "sold soon after the appraisal": they read like he's burying faith, trying to forget about it; that he's sold himself off to the Devil or the faithless. The song is titled Earth because there's so much imagery about the power of the Earth in it.
The "fault lines tremble underneath" his "glass house" - the house without foundation, the transparent house that everyone can look in and tell isn't safe, but he convinces himself is by putting "it out of my mind long enough to call it 'courage' to live without a lifeline". He glorifies faithlessness by saying it's courage, that by living by his own power alone he's somehow being brave. In reality, the house could collapse in on him at any moment, but he turns a "blind eye" and "bends the definition of faith" to fit him situation, so he doesn't have to change.
Thus comes the thesis of the song: "til the sirens sound, I'm safe".
As long as he turns at the last second; as long as he makes it right before the door closes; he's safe. He can live and be as he likes. But emergencies don't come with warning. They strike without reason. And even WITH the warnings - with the trembling faultlines, and the echoes - he still ignores them, waiting for the fated "sirens" that have already come and he refuses to listen.
I can't quite put it into the words I'd like, but this song makes my soul shake every time I listen.
Listen to this song while watching lightning flashing outside it is awesome
@ all those people who disliked, fight me
i have no idea how this got on my recomended but im defeneyly going to listen to this on loop for the
next few days
This song sounds like it was meant for 2020
probably my favorite song from the whole album then again how can i just pick one favorite
I dig till my shovel tells a secret
Swear to the earth that I will keep it
Brush off the dirt
And let my change of heart occur
Sold soon after the appraisal
The hammer struck the auction table
Louder than anything I've ever heard
Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house
But I put it out of my mind
Long enough to call it courage
To live without a lifeline
I bend the definition
Of faith to exonerate my blind eye
Till the sirens sound, I'm safe
Meanwhile, my family's taking shelter
The sparks send the fire down the wire
A countdown begins
Until the dynamite gives in
The echo, as wide as the equator
Travels through a world of built up anger
Too late to pull itself together now
Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house
But I put it out of my mind
Long enough to call it courage
To live without a lifeline
I bend the definition
Of faith to exonerate my blind eye
Till the sirens sound, I'm safe
There was an earthquake
There was an avalanche of change
We were so afraid
We cried ourselves a hurricane
There were floods
Tidal waves over us
So we folded our hands and prayed
Like a domino
These wildfires grow and grow
Until a brand new world takes shape
Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house
But I put it out of my mind
Long enough to call it courage
To live without a lifeline
I bend the definition
Of faith to exonerate my blind eye
Till the sirens sound, I'm safe
Until the sirens sound, I'm safe
Until the sirens sound, I'm safe
This song is filled with such Anxiety and Desperation while the other planet songs from SAL are so captivating, with Saturn being Euphoric. I think that says something.
i've been listening to this song on repeat for the past week
Personally this song means a lot to me. Im not gonna cry woe is me.. But I've had it rough, and I wouldn't give in to my emotions, because i thought it was weak. When in reality fighting how i felt was hurting me more. I was becoming bitter. Unsympathetic. Etc. Etc. But then i found my "soul mate" (i know, what a queer term).. Anyways so i fell in love and i had to learn to be open. Because you cant have a boyfriend and be angry all the time and expect him to just be cool with it. (Mind you im a very angry 19 year old girl, i know thats young to be bitter but when you struggle all your life... Ya know. Again not crying woe is me) so basically this song to me is about being "strong" all your life and finally breaking under all that emotion. Idk just me.
Same feels, I feel u
What a beautiful song, so in love with these lyrics
i wish this song got more recognition, honestly everyone who says that what we've been doing to the earth doesn't harm it should listen to this song
What a great song truly explains the essence of the world and what has happened
Full disclosure... I am completely obsessed with this song.
'ERDE', meaning "ground" or "soil." Germanic origin.