ithaka - Sleep Driver

Описание: https://open.spotify.com/track/463ROA...
Ithaka "Sleep Driver" from the 1995 album Flowers And The Color Of Paint.

Lyrics reflecting; love, longing and difficult conditions in the movie production industry.

Lyrics by: Ithaka Darin Pappas ©1991,1995,2025
Published by Ravenshark Music/ASCAP/administered by North Music Group

L.A. to Phoenix in six hours straight
Is he awake or is he asleep
?
Drives all night in his GTO
To see a squaw he’s left by a red rock

SLEEPDRIVER, SLEEPDRIVER

Maybe it’s love maybe a death wish
Not sure himself in his state of despair

Fourteen hour days, five days a week
All for a squaw he’s left by a red rock

Sleep driver drove to be on the big screen
But the star became a grip for not much pay
A little is better than none,
He sends the checks home he sends her to school

SLEEPDRIVER, SLEEPDRIVER

And every Friday by eight
He’s on the Ten heading east…for love and home cooking
But by Sunday at six, he’s on the Ten heading west
He’s got to get back,
he’s got an eight a.m. call
All the way in Valencia

SLEEPDRIVER, SLEEPDRIVER

The Sleep driver drove back and forth for years
Through dust storms and rain
and degrees of a hundred and eight
The Sleep driver drove, dozing off and dozing on
Reflector hypnosis a trance-like state.

SLEEPDRIVER, SLEEPDRIVER

The sleep driver drove the whole night straight
But one night, he just plain fell asleep.

And he dreamed of his great grandfather
In a feather headband and a pair of moccasins
…
young as a buck

And he was in a new land
Even farther from the squaw
he’d left
By the red rock

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Poem Book: https://www.amazon.com/Sleepdriver-It...

"Sleep Driver" was recorded at Namouche Studios
located in Lisbon, Portugal in 1995
and originally appeared on
Ithaka's debut album
Flowers And The Color Of Paint.

The album was nominated for
three Blitz Awards (the Portuguese
equivalent of the Grammy) in the
categories of: Best Album,
Best New Project and Best Male Vocalist.

And in an end-of-decade retrospective
of national music, the prestigious
newspaper Publico considered
Flowers And The Color Of Paint
to be one of the ten most influential
'Portuguese' albums of the 1990's.

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