James Kennedy - Sleeping Horses

'Sleeping Horses' is an Acoustic Pop Rock song & is the 7th song on the 2013 James Kennedy album 'The National Health Service'. The words, music & production are by James Kennedy.

'Sleeping Horses' is an emotional, acoustically orientated ballad with sparse instrumentation consisting of acoustic guitar, Piano, strings and vocals. The songs lyrics have been interpreted in many different ways but Kennedy describes the song as being about a person who is a relentless self sacrificer. The song tells the story of a girl who puts her 'dreams on hold' to carry 'Sleeping Horses' rather than just waking them up. The story ends with the girl eventually drowning whilst carrying Horses through a river. The moralistic tale was inspired by several people in Kennedy's life who he'd witnessed leading needlessly self-sacrificing lives to their own severe detriment.

LYRICS

She will be her own worst enemy While a saint to you and me She lives to give Never acting to receive And her words you can always believe

She gets deeper while she carries Sleeping Horses She would never burden the causing hand with their causes With her dreams on hold and feelings swallowed with a smile She would never dream of waking up the sleeping horses

She could be anything she wants to be But she’s weak to a help appeal

She gets deeper while she carries Sleeping Horses She would never burden the causing hand with their causes With her dreams on hold and feelings swallowed with a smile She would never dream of waking up the sleeping horses

There’s no glory in being the Martyr Your glory is in being just the way you are

Her open heart, the bystanders all agreed Was her Achilles Heel

She gets deeper while she carries Sleeping Horses She would never burden the causing hand with their causes With her dreams on hold and feelings swallowed with a smile She would never dream of waking up the sleeping horses