sleeping at last - mercury lyrics

[goldenhorde]

Screw eargasm, this gave me a soulgasm

[_spooky_mars_]

I'm pretty sure Mercury is the core of a planet that had it's outer layers stripped away by the sun, so the mention of precious metals inside is cool to me

[Sayuchiful]

"All of this mess is just an attempt to know the worth of my life" <-- This hit me so hard

[thedoctordisco]

This song is not only a song, it's a masterpiece. It's the most beautiful song I've ever heard. Sleeping at Last doesn't only make songs, these songs are masterpieces. Every single one of them. And I can't listen to those songs without thinking how beautiful they are and how beautiful music is. These songs make me feel things.

[alexmelton]

Its been months since I listened to them, its that time again

[pascaleg.]

'Somehow I've fallen in love with this middle ground at the cost of my soul'
That's the part for me...

[wollathewonderwitch]

I feel like their giving each planet its own personalty, and their all so beautiful...

[Voyager_AU]

I feel like this song is talking about Mercury and its relationship with the sun:

- "I'll go anywhere you want me" (Mercury is closest to the sun so its gravity to it is extremely strong.)

- "All of this mess is just an attempt to know the worth of my life", "made of precious metals" (Being so close to the sun, it is constantly being blasted by solar radiation stripping its outer layers away over the eons, reveals its inner core of metals.)

- "I am dissonance" (Mercury has the most "oval" orbit of all the planets and the smallest tilt....its not in "harmony" with the other planets. Dissonance could also refer to the extreme difference in temperature of the part of the planet facing the sun versus the other side which is in shadow that gets very cold.)

- The part from 01:54 to 02:27 could be talking about the oval orbit. Mercury is trying to get away and closing its eyes to the suns heat, light and gravity but eventually gets sucked back to it while it swings over the end of the oval back toward the sun.

[bug]

Some aesthetic ideas for this song:
- a street illuminated by a street lamp
- a person in an airplane leaning against the window shot from an angle where their face is obscured
- raging rivers
- the soft glow of a neon sign from several feet away (blue)
- two people passing each other in a subway

[elthehuman]

I am dissonance waiting to be pulled swiftly into tune. This band has helped heavily in my transition to self acceptance and my journey into accepting the ways of the world. Thank you for such beautiful celestial truths set to music

[warriorcatskid]

This is the kind of poetry that I honestly couldn’t explain the meaning of full in words. I just sort of understand it like someone airdropped it to my soul.

[cocoamilky]

God, I love Sleeping at Last so much. They make such beautiful music and it's all so inspiring. Love it.
Nice lyric video btw, very pretty. Matches the song well.

[bogtree]

I am just totally in love with how genius that man is, his every song you can use as a metaphore for life and even the exact planet, I listen to him 2 years and everytime I listen his songs I always find new connections and beauty I didn't see and how he can bring life into peaces of rocks and gravity

[wyoruss]

The 10th time listening to this tonight!

[SvnofCrows]

When everyone has some deep meaning attached to this song and all you can think of is your writer's block and how you caused it by giving your characters families who care if they get hurt

[warriorcatskid]

“Somehow I’ve fallen in love with this middle ground at the cost of my soul” just HIT man

[hecate]

"like science fiction binding truth".

[dannieon]

Sometimes I go to the comments of SAL songs because I feel lonely. Then I feel less alone. If you're seeing this comment, and are in a rough time in life, please take it as a sign that I see you and I'm sitting with you through cyberspace

[wiggls_]

Sleeping at last are so fucking talented it’s unbelievable. THE LYRICS, THE INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS everything about their music is just music that has come straight from the soul.

[topazmum]

*_God knows, I am dissonance waiting to be swiftly pulled into tune_*
honestly one of my favorite lines in a song ever.