The Making of “Sleep Through the Quiet Lust”

Lyrics and music inspired by 2 dreams from 5/20/2020 and 7/17/2020

Written June 2021

The lyrics weren’t about the events of any dream in particular, although they are about sleeping/dreaming. The title lyric was sung by my church’s band in my dream, which is why it sounds a bit worshippy. Almost all the lyrics of this song came from what I heard in 2 dreams, with very little conscious lyric-writing. Because of that, it was extremely easy to write. 

I mentally debated over the album title for a long time. I couldn’t name it "Requirements For Sleep 2" because I’d already made something called Requirements For Sleep Version 2.0 when I re-recorded my first album, and that’s extremely confusing. I settled on naming it after this song title -- I felt like it was symbolic of the themes of most of the songs on the album, and it was also a lyric that came entirely from a dream. 

Making it was pretty easy and straightforward. I re-recorded the vocals at my school library’s free vocal booth, which is an awesome resource to have. The progressive vocal takes got better and more powerful. As I played the song live, however, I realized that the complexity of the guitar rhythm makes it extremely hard to play at the same time as I sing the lyrics -- they have such different rhythms that I keep twisting them up!