Passion Pit: Sleepyhead Meaning
Sleepyhead Lyrics
And everything is going to beat
And everything is going to
And you said, it was like fire around the brim
Burning solid, burning thin, the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the...
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"My beard grew down to the floor, and out through the door."
Is one of the few lyrics I had zero problem interpreting.
He grew older and left. -
Maybe a child having a nightmare
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Perhaps it's cancer
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To me it sounds like someone watching someone die (maybe get taken off life support) in a hospital room surrounded by that person's friends and family. Sleepy head is just a sad but easier way for the guy to think about it because maybe dying is just like sleeping.
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I think it's about someone in a coma.
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I think this song is basically about the dreamscape.
With so many weird things, like, "My beard grew down to the floor, and out through the door." It's pretty obvious it's about a very strange dream.
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