“As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear”

—  Sophie B. Hawkins

Whaler (1994), As I Lay Me Down
Context: As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear
Though I'm far away
I'll whisper your name into the sky
And I will wake up happy

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "As I lay me down to sleep This I pray That you will hold me dear" by Sophie B. Hawkins?
Sophie B. Hawkins photo
Sophie B. Hawkins17
American musician 1967

Related quotes

Andy Partridge photo

“Now I lay me down to sleep
Knowing that your lenses peep
Now I eat my daily bread
And into the tape spool I'll be fed”

Andy Partridge (1953) British musician

"Reel By Real".
Drums and Wires (1979)

“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”

William Nicholson movie Shadowlands

Source: Shadowlands

Dalton Trumbo photo

“Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if I'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.”

Dalton Trumbo book Johnny Got His Gun

Source: Johnny Got His Gun

Kurt Cobain photo

“If I may, and if I might
Lay me down, weeping.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Do Re Mi
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)

James Brown photo

“Try me. Try me.
And your love will always be true.
Oh I need you (I need you).
Hold me. Hold me.
I want you right here by my side.
Hold me. Hold me.
And your love we won't hide.”

James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist

Try Me, from Please Please Please (album) (1959)
Song lyrics

Charles Bukowski photo

“I am too sick to lay down
the sidewalks frighten me
the whole damned city frightens me,
what I will become
what I have become
frightens me.”

Charles Bukowski book Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

Source: Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

Diana Gabaldon photo

“Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed.

Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Scottish Prisoner

Source: The Scottish Prisoner

“I would hold you up. I will ever hold you up and hold you dear, lover mine.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

Suzanne Collins photo

“Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back, but I don't quite catch it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“All night I lay awake beside you,
Leaning on my elbow, watching your
Sleeping face, that face whose purity
Never ceases to astonish me.”

Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector

In Defense of the Earth (1956), She Is Away

Related topics