FIONA APPLE - SLEEP TO DREAM

SLEEP TO DREAM

FIONA APPLE

SONGWRITER: FIONA APPLE MAGGART

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: TIDAL

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: TRIP HOP/ROCK

YEAR: 1997

 

          Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart(born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released five albums from 1996 to 2020, which have all reached the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Apple has received numerous awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award.

        The youngest daughter of the actor Brandon Maggart, Apple was born in New York City and was raised alternating between her mother's home in New York and her father's in Los Angeles. Classically trained on piano as a child, she began composing her own songs when she was eight years old. Her debut album, Tidal, containing songs written when she was 17, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Rock Performance for the single "Criminal". She followed with When the Pawn... (1999), produced by Jon Brion, which was also critically and commercially successful and was certified Platinum.

      For her third album, Extraordinary Machine(2005), Apple again collaborated with Brion and began recording the album in 2002. However, Apple was reportedly unhappy with the production and opted not to release the record, leading fans to protest Epic Records, erroneously believing that the label was withholding its release. The album was eventually re-produced without Brion and released in October 2005. The album was certified Gold, and nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. In 2012, she released her fourth studio album, The Idler Wheel..., which received critical praise and was followed by a tour of the United States and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2013. Apple's fifth studio album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, was released in 2020 to widespread acclaim, earning two Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Performance for the lead single "Shameika".

           "Sleep to Dream" is a song written and recorded by American alternative singer-songwriter Fiona Apple. It was released on April 14, 1997 by Work Records and Columbia Records as the second single from her debut studio album, Tidal.

           The song's accompanying music video was filmed by French diretor Stéphane Sednaoui and received positive reviews. Apple won the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in a Video in 1997, in which it garnered worldwide controversy after she proclaimed during her acceptance speech: "This world is bullshit, and you shouldn't model your life about what we think is cool, and what we're wearing and what we're saying." Despite peaking at only number 28 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, the song remains one of Apple's most successful singles to date. 

I tell you how I feel but you don't care

I say tell me the truth but you don't dare

You say love is a hell you cannot bear

And I say give me mine back and go there for all I care

 

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream

You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem

This mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways

So don't forget what I told you don't come around

I got my own hell to raise

 

I have never been so insulted in all my life

I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride

First you run like a fool just to be at my side

And now you run like a fool but you just run to hide

I can't abide

 

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream

You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem

This mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways

So don't forget what I told you don't come around

I got my own hell to raise

 

Don't make it a big deal, don't be so sensitive

We're not playing a game anymore

You don't have to be so defensive

 

Don't you plead me your case, don't bother to explain

Don't even show me your face 'cause it's a crying shame

Just go back to the rock from under which you came

Take the sorrows you gave and all the stakes you claim

And don't forget to blame

 

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream

You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem

This mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways

So don't forget what I told you don't come around

I got my own hell to raise

 

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream

You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem

This mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways

So don't forget what I told you don't come around

I got my own hell to raise.