Sleep To Dream Her by The Dave Matthews Band

Inspired by the upcoming concert of The Dave Matthews Band (as part of the Alive!09 festival,) I decided to start off this blog/musical/photographic experiment with this -one of my favourite Dave Matthews tune.

I could not find the video for this song on-line, so I'll put up this version with only a static image -which is just as well, as our mission during the next month is to make some photos inspired by the song itself, so this way we are not overly influenced by the video images. :-)



This song was released in 2001, as part of the Everyday album, and the lyrics follow.

I know I'll miss her later
Wish I could bend my love to hate her
Wish I could be her creator
To twist her arms now

She stares up at the stars when
The stars fell from her hair then
I bent down to collect them
And then she was gone

Oh, I sleep just to dream her
I beg the night just to see her
That my only love should be her
Just to lie in her arms

Oh, I came there to find out
Find out she'd made up her mind, oh
My arms are all tied up
To me she was blind

This space between us
Where wingless dreams fall earless
Will you not bear me witness
With your back to me now

It seemed so unnerving
Still somehow deserving
That she could hold my heart so tightly
And still not see me here, oh

Oh, I sleep just to dream her
Beg the night just to see her
That my only love should be her
Just to lie in her arms

I know I'll miss her later
Wish I could bend my love to hate her
Wish I could be her creator
To be the light in her eyes


So now we have until August the first to put up our posts with our photos. The images must be in some way connected or inspired by this song.

Before August the first we will put up another post with the theme song for next month's assignment.

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