EXTRA **** Sleep

In these days of dealing with the isolation of social distancing, we’re producing the Apple Seed from a couple of home studios.  Sam took to posting to social media a little song every day – something filled with a little hope and a little encouragement to hang on. We thought we’d bring you some of those pieces here, as Apple Seed Extras. These aren’t studio recordings, and you’ll be able to tell – they’re made with an iPad, aimed at Sam while he sits at his desk. We’re happy to bring them to you here on The Apple Seed. Here's what Sam says about this song, called "Sleep": "This is a song that I started to write on the way home from the dentist’s office. My youngest son had been in there that morning – just a little guy, five years old, and his teeth were a mess, and he needed some work done that was going to require them to put him right under. He had been yanked out of bed in his PJs, impossibly early in the morning, long before down, to go down to the office for that procedure, And I waited with him while he slept in the recovery room, and I watched him slowly come out of it, and as I drove him home, he fell dead asleep again in the car, and I saw him there in this kind of drug induced stupor, and he just so vulnerable, like the world could just have its way with him. And the sun was just coming up, and my father’s heart imagined all the things he might have to face in a tough world that didn’t care much about him. And frankly, those thoughts had a lot more to do with how my day was going than they did about how his was going. But at the moment, with a sore mouth waiting for him when he woke up, and a miserable day ahead, I just wished him a good, long, sleep. And that wish got writ rather dramatically large in this song." Here are the lyrics: There is nothing so cold as the night-time There is nothing so black as the sky And you rest there in your little PJs And the storm gonna keep blowing by It will take you and do what it will so for now close your eyes And sleep ‘Til you know that all promises