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Sleeper on the Night Train

from Shameem (self​-​titled) by Shameem

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about

I first penned some of these lyrics years ago, but discarded them as I couldn't come up with any sound musical ideas. Much later, I came up with a guitar riff and bass groove that formed the basis of this song, and re-worked these lyrics from long ago.

When things are tough, it’s very easy to blame fortune for your bad day. One of Aesop’s Fables that I read as a child told the story of Dame Fortune appearing to a young boy who had fallen asleep while lying on the edge of a water well. She begged him to wake up, saying that he would surely fall into the well, and that when he did, the people would lay the blame on her.

This is a song about taking charge of your own destiny. I believe that life gives us a set of tools to use, and that it is up to us to wield them to create our own reality. We are not prisoners of fate.

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You say, “This is not my day.”
Resign yourself to disarray
Well, don’t you see another way?
Take your future in your hands, make plans and have your say
Rather than waiting for fate to send your day your way

Will you be another sleeper on the night train?
Will you be another sleeper on the night train?

You say, “This is just much luck;
The hand was dealt, now I am stuck.”
Oh, don’t you see another way?
Let your vision now expand, make plans and have your say
Rather than waiting for fate to send your day your way

Will you be another sleeper on the night train?
Will you be another sleeper on the night train?

Sleeper on…

(guitar solo)

Sleeper on, sleeper on, sleeper on…

Will you be another sleeper on the night train?
Will you be another sleeper on the night train?
Will you be another sleeper on the night train?
Will you be another sleeper on the night train?
Will you be another sleeper?

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from Shameem (self​-​titled), released November 19, 2011
Written by Shameem Taheri-Lee

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Shameem Perth, Australia

Shameem is an Aussie of Chinese-Malaysian and Iranian descent, whose unique fusion of 90s R&B, 70s soul and a subtle twist of jazz is imbued with personal stories and socially conscious lyrics.

Shameem keeps a busy performing schedule, having supported such artists as Michael Bolton, George Benson, Ronan Keating and Belinda Carlisle, and toured in Australia as well as the USA and Canada.
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