Lyrics to
Sleep’s Dark And Silent Gate

This version of Sleep’S Dark And Silent Gate was released by Jackson Browne in 1976.

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Sometimes I lie awake at night and wonder
Where my life will lead me
Waiting to pass under Sleep’s dark and silent gate

I found my love too late
Running around day after day
Looking for the time to play
While my old friends slipped away

Never should have had to try so hard
To make a love work out, I guess
I don’t know what love has got to do with happiness
But the times when we were happy
Were the times we never tried

Sitting down by the highway
Looking down the road
Waiting for a ride
I don’t know where I’ve been
Wishing I could fly away
Don’t know where I’m going
Wishing I could hide
Oh God this is some shape I’m in
When the only thing that makes me cry
Is the kindness in my baby’s eye

Sometimes I lie awake at night and wonder
Where the years have gone
They have all passed under
Sleep’s dark and silent gate

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The lyrics to Sleep’S Dark And Silent Gate are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jackson Browne used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Sleep’S Dark And Silent Gate have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Jackson Browne and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Sleep’S Dark And Silent Gate by Jackson Browne. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Sleep’S Dark And Silent Gate" means the words set to the music of Sleep’S Dark And Silent Gate, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson Browne. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Sleep’S Dark And Silent Gate and the lyrics to Sleep’S Dark And Silent Gate are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson Browne who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sleep’S Dark And Silent Gate, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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