8 Full Hours of Sleep

Okay, so I love this song. The lyrics are so hard to play to on guitar because he sings at what seems to be off cue on time, but its suppose to be that way which works. I love this song. However, I have no idea what it's about. So does anyone know? Because I love this song so much.

I always felt it was just about life and how when you're asleep you get a break from everything in your life. "you can't feel the hunger"

Yea, I just thought it was about how simple life is when you're asleep. You don't have to deal with any problems and life is good. I hate that feeling when you wake up and you realize all this shit you have to do, and that your dream was only a dream.

I also think it's about waking up from that peaceful night of sleeping, and keeping that peace with you throughout the day. Always keeping hope. This song also has some of my favorite lyrics ever in it:

and the sun's always rising in the sky somewhere. and if young hearts should explode from all the lies they've been told, let the new night bring you peace. and the promise of tomorrow. where we can wake to a new beginning.

yeah, that all makes sense. thanks.

this is one of my favorite AM! songs. I love it. So much.

Life when you sleep is great.

So what if america falls apart?

I think new beginnings is a big factor in this, as well. I mean, it could just be about how after this sleep (which he's portrayed as this almost revolutionary kind of thing), it starts out fresh, and it's kind of saying (like laurendelore said) that you should try to keep that peacefulness, or that spirit of the revolution.

i lsiten to this one before i sleep. the part about

"we can wake to a new begning tomorow they all of lost there faces....memories of all we had and hte times we should of lived"

seems about regret and passing up oppertunity with someone or something and due to this young hearts will explode.

this is probably the most meaninful am song there is because there is so many interpitations

"And tomorrow, America, might just fall apart!"

Continuing what nickyno said, this must mean that he passed up an oppertunity and then he may never have the chance to do it again because, well american might just fall apart the next day,

spartan593 wrote:

"And tomorrow, America, might just fall apart!"

Continuing what nickyno said, this must mean that he passed up an oppertunity and then he may never have the chance to do it again because, well american might just fall apart the next day,

I get the feeling that "America just might fall apart" is said in a positive way in this, though.

drinkingirish wrote:

I always felt it was just about life and how when you're asleep you get a break from everything in your life. "you can't feel the hunger"

You're seriously asking what this song is about?

Go listen to it again.

XBebop wrote:

drinkingirish wrote:

I always felt it was just about life and how when you're asleep you get a break from everything in your life. "you can't feel the hunger"

You're seriously asking what this song is about?

Go listen to it again.

Instead of saying that, why don't you just tell us what you think it's about

lauren wrote:

I also think it's about waking up from that peaceful night of sleeping, and keeping that peace with you throughout the day. Always keeping hope. This song also has some of my favorite lyrics ever in it:

and the sun's always rising in the sky somewhere. and if young hearts should explode from all the lies they've been told, let the new night bring you peace. and the promise of tomorrow. where we can wake to a new beginning.

bah! that's on of my favorite lyrics ever too! It's so amazing. and I love the end of the song where it says i would trade it for the silence. It's just so beautiful. I think also the song is talking about this idea of freedom and equality, and the notion of hope which lauren said. When you are a sleep, when you are dreaming, you enter a new reality, where there are no ties to society, everyone is the same in a dream, no one is richer, no one is inferior, "no one is hungry". It's that idea of being free and at peace.

"Tomorrow, tell me,
Where will you wake up?
Beyond title, beyond these careers and laws,
Something more than borders on a map..."

in that part of the song it could be suggesting that through the psyche/sleep or whatever only can we escape these societal bounds, and because of this can you achieve a higher understanding- can you free yourself from society, these boundaries, these limitations that define everyone- whether its by class, race, sex, etc. It's almost as if he's saying through sleep we are all unified under all the same natural laws, where no one is better or worse, we are all the same, and that when we wake up there is that hope for a tomorrow or a day where these realities that we break from in sleep will become the very reality we live in.

Basically, in short, this song is incredible. One of my favorites.

Cenaco wrote:

lauren wrote:

I also think it's about waking up from that peaceful night of sleeping, and keeping that peace with you throughout the day. Always keeping hope. This song also has some of my favorite lyrics ever in it:

and the sun's always rising in the sky somewhere. and if young hearts should explode from all the lies they've been told, let the new night bring you peace. and the promise of tomorrow. where we can wake to a new beginning.

bah! that's on of my favorite lyrics ever too! It's so amazing. and I love the end of the song where it says i would trade it for the silence. It's just so beautiful. I think also the song is talking about this idea of freedom and equality, and the notion of hope which lauren said. When you are a sleep, when you are dreaming, you enter a new reality, where there are no ties to society, everyone is the same in a dream, no one is richer, no one is inferior, "no one is hungry". It's that idea of being free and at peace.

"Tomorrow, tell me,
Where will you wake up?
Beyond title, beyond these careers and laws,
Something more than borders on a map..."

in that part of the song it could be suggesting that through the psyche/sleep or whatever only can we escape these societal bounds, and because of this can you achieve a higher understanding- can you free yourself from society, these boundaries, these limitations that define everyone- whether its by class, race, sex, etc. It's almost as if he's saying through sleep we are all unified under all the same natural laws, where no one is better or worse, we are all the same, and that when we wake up there is that hope for a tomorrow or a day where these realities that we break from in sleep will become the very reality we live in.

Basically, in short, this song is incredible. One of my favorites.

One of my favorite things about this forum are the posts like this. Some of the most intriguing and intelligent interpretations of songs and other discussions can be found here. Thank you AM! Forum, for enlightening my life.

aww thank you! =] I"m glad I could enlighten your life with my post which was written at around 1:30 am!

I love the song so much, and couldn't help but to dive deep into a perhaps untouched meaning.

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I feel like this should be discussed.

I have recently re-fallen in love with this song, and it's been on loop for three days.

She's standing there... with open arms.
And one night. Can last forever...

So heartfelt...

didn't tom change the lyrics "sun's always rising" to "sun's always falling" when he did his solo stuff?

If that's a permanent change, I could see it's purpose as adding more sadness to the theme. Less hope, more daily dread. Or it could also be a continuation of the sleep theme. You're going into your eight hours of sleep. The sun's falling somewhere else where someone else is about to do the same. This is not isolated, everybody does it.

The sun's always rising in the sky somewhere


I always liked that line.... I guess changing it to falling just makes it more depressing.

I feel like this song is mostly saying how fucked up the world is, and sometimes the only escape from this damned world is to sleep, but thats wat the song means 2 me

The lyrics written on the RAR poster thing have "the sun's always rising" then the second time "the sun's always falling", but in the song he says rising both times.

anyone know where this version is from?

I think I remember reading somewhere that there was an earlier version of 8 Full Hours on the Crime demo tape.

Chops4569 wrote:

I think I remember reading somewhere that there was an earlier version of 8 Full Hours on the Crime demo tape.

I was thinking that too The person who posted it also has 'old versions' of julie, jordan, and axl rose. Which made me wonder if jordan and axl rose are from a different demo tape? Julie and this song were on the crime demo (supposedly) but not the other 2.

An Acoustic EP Demo maybe? I've never heard of such a thing but those two versions of Jordan and Reinventing sound almost exactly like the do on the Acoustic EP except with a higher pitch.

yeah, axl rose has a cassette hiss, but that could be just that it was put on a cassette, then ripped back onto the comptuer. But 8 full hours of sleep is for sure a different version, his voice is different. We may have found some of the crime demos fingers crossed.

edit: before I jizz myself, I'd like to point out that this could easily just be someone screweing with the originals. so I really don't know anything, I sent the uploader a message asking.