A friend of mine sent a few Two Door Cinema Club songs with me. Got me into a lot of their songs off Beacon. Sleep Alone was my favorite one of them. Most metal/punk music isn’t particularly “danceable” (though I damn well try.) Sleep Alone was just a song that made me want to get on my feet and move and skip and twirl and dance. I would listen to it a lot on my walk from work to home one summer and I found myself skipping and twirling and dancing in the empty streets. I probably looked like a crazy person. And in the nights the dancing and twirling grew to a fever pitch. I would go to the forest at night and just twirl and dance in a flowing skirt. (I know I sound like a crazy person, it made sense in the moment alright.)
It just fills me with this strange joy, the rhythms and the melodies. There’s an odd brightness to it that reminded me of those moments through the empty streets and the forest at night. It’s a song that reminds me of spring and summer. It’s a song that reminds me of a time when I was alone but just being happy to be Alive. It’s an oddly hopeful song when I need Hope.
The lyrics aren’t something I really paid much attention to when I was obsessed with it. The only bit that sticks with me is the I Was Worthy at the end. It’s a lonely song, but I think a fundamentally positive one. And I think that’s why it stuck with me
