http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay-suDoSygc
Now here are the lyrics.
Hear your heartbeat
Beat a frantic pace
And it's not even seven AM
You're feeling the rush of anguish settling
You cannot help showing them in
Hurry up then
Or you'll fall behind and
They will take control of you
And you need to heal the hurt behind your eyes
Fickle words crowding your mind
So
Sleep, sugar, let your dreams flood in
Like waves of sweet fire, you're safe within
Sleep, sweetie, let your floods come rushing in
And carry you over to a new morning
Try as you might
You try to give it up
Seems to be holding on fast
It's hand in your hand
A shadow over you
A beggar for soul in your face
Still it don't mater if you won't listen
If you won't let them follow you
You just need to heal
Make good all your lies
Move on and don't look behind
So
Sleep, sugar, let your dreams flood in
Like waves of sweet fire, you're safe within
Sleep, sweetie, let your floods come rushing in
And carry you over to a new morning
Day after day
Fickle visions messing with your head
Fickle, vicious
Sleeping in your bed
Messing with your head
Fickle visions
Fickle, vicious:
Sleep, sugar, let your dreams flood in
Like waves of sweet fire, you're safe within
Sleep, sweetie, let your floods come rushing in
And carry you over to a new morning
I chose to look at a tiny part of the song, just the opening, despite the fact that I love the whole thing and wanted to take photos for all of it.
Hear your heart beat
Beat a frantic pace
And it's not even seven AM
You're feeling the rush of anguish settling
You cannot help showing them in
...
And you need to heal the hurt behind your eyes
Fickle words crowding your mind
This bit is mostly what I was responding to. I'm a bit of an insomniac and as such, the few moment before the day begins anew are very quiet and peaceful. To me it's the moment between the frantic thoughts and non-stop-ness of the night and gearing your tired self up for another frantic day. I suppose I know that frantic feeling before 7am, I hate it. It's usually followed by a moment of quiet and peace, somehow away from my own stupid mind, and this is what i photographed. This is followed by that anguish, knowing that there is a whole day ahead of you now, and then a sleepless night, and then a day, and so on.
That moment in the middle is fleeting, and not even mentioned in the song, but the actual music reminds me of that [sane] moment. The music also feels kind of fuzzy and vague, which is how you tend to feel after several nights of no sleep, funnily enough. So anyway, I was going to photograph your usual insomnia thing, of grainy claustrophobic black and whites with a person looking all frantic and stuff (you know the ones, I hardly need to explain them), but I decided to do something different. The thing is that those images are so linked to insomnia, but I find this sort of photograph is more personal to people who actually have it, or have had it. That little in-between moment is something a little bit special to us insomniacs. So enough talking (I'm meant to be a photographer not an english student >.<)
So, I took this photo, i wanted that blurry, soft feeling to the background (yes, very dodgliy done with a filter, long story short computer issues, I could reedit now but I'm kinda ok with it for now, I'll repost later if I do), and I wanted myself just in the picture. My house is way out in the sticks, it's past Queanbeyan and basically the last house before just bush. We get lots of animals, it's quiet and peaceful and feels very away from the city. The bush around there is lovely and I wanted to include a little of it in the photo (any more and you would see my landlord's house =[) so yes. That's my moment. Drinking my tea. About to kick off for another very tired day.
As people in the class said "wow! you got up so early to take that photo!!"
But up, of course, is relative. Haaaaaaa.
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