Name: All Because I Could Not Sleep
Duration: P00H04M29S
Description: This is my favourite track that I have written thus far. I was always the last to go to sleep when I was a child, and I'd call out 'Goodnight' until my parents were asleep, then I knew I was alone. This song is about this feeling, and how the night can seem both terrifying and wonderful to a small child. I really hope you like it!

All Because I Could Not Sleep

by Victoria Keating.

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tedcreedon Another beauty, Vikki. Smashing arrangement. Looking forward to the album. Lash into it, gurl.

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This is my favourite track that I have written thus far. I was always the last to go to sleep when I was a child, and I'd call out 'Goodnight' until my parents were asleep, then I knew I was alone. This song is about this feeling, and how the night can seem both terrifying and wonderful to a small child. I really hope you like it!

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All Because I Could Not Sleep Lyrics and music by Victoria Keating

When I was a child I used to lie awake at night and hope
That all my teddy bears would not stand up and fight me.
I would trace the carriages where ladies carried parasols
And held on to their dresses, running down the steps and

Coyly show their dainty feet
All because I could not sleep.

Some would call it worrying or feverish imagining
But night time came too quickly, and darkness, well it grabbed me!
I was taken on a tenebrous and magic carpet ride
To terrifying places, with hands that covered faces

I’d call out in the night to see
If anybody’d answer me.

Or still be wide awake in case my heart should break and shatter in a million
Or still be wide awake in case my heart should break and shatter in a million
Or still be wide awake in case my heart should break and shatter in a million
Or still be wide awake in case my heart should break and shatter in a million pieces.

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released February 4, 2022
Lyrics and Music by Victoria Keating.
Vocals by Victoria Keating.
Piano, Electric Piano and harmonies by Aine O'Gorman.
Drums by Peter O'Sullivan.
All other instruments by Brian Casey.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Brian Casey of Wavefield Recording Studios, Clonakilty. With Special thanks to Sarah O'Mahony.

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Victoria Keating

Victoria is a singer, writer and blogger from West Cork, Ireland. She has toured and recorded extensively with Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott. Victoria's music is very individual, and engaging, she is as comfortable writing a protest song as a hymn; a medieval ballad or a rock song. Victoria writes and sings from the heart with a voice that will make you fall in love with her and her music. ... more

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