"Sleeping Awake" (often mistitled as "Sleeping Away") is the lead single by P.O.D. from The Matrix Reloaded: The Album. The film soundtrack was released on May 6, 2003 by Warner Bros. Records/Maverick Records with the single itself available May 26. The US edition only includes the title track while the UK/Australia edition, released June 3, includes the video and two more songs.
"Sleeping Awake" was later released as a bonus track on P.O.D.'s studio album, Payable on Death.
The song's video and lyrics are directly inspired by The Matrix Reloaded. The chorus features the line "dreaming of Zion", which refers to the last human city of planet Earth as depicted in the film.
Famous quotes containing the words sleeping and/or awake:
“A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is
not waking thoughts although it is written and thought
with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as
dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like
anything and some dreams are like something and some
dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams
are not. And some dreams are just what any one would
do only a little different always just a little
different and that is what a novel is.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)