Mia Doi Todd: "Sleepless Nights" Music Video

A documentary music video about Mia's misadventures in skiing and facing her fears on top of a rugged mountain side during a road trip to Wyoming.

"How far we go along the road to find ourselves."

Artist: Mia Doi Todd
Song: Sleepless Nights
Album: GEA
Dir: Tristan Bayer

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS LYRICS

David, is it true that fear is lavender?
How do you walk the waves so free?
Fear is an ocean of unknown proportion.
It strikes me down some sleepless nights.
Some sleepless nights, some sleepless nights,

some sleepless nights.
Out on the patio, I told you how long ago
I had abandoned my will.
Under the circumstance, I really had no chance.
The loss, the let-down, the lameness haunt me still.
How far we go along the road away from ourselves!
How far we go along the road away from ourselves.

We were not getting along, retreat already begun,
Though we made it through the night.
Time came to climb the wall.
I was hoping I would fall back onto your side.
When one is hurt, and one is meek, and one is lost.

Love is like that lilac wine.
It makes you drunk; it makes you cry
tears and laughter, ecstasy.
Our bodies move in harmony.

We walked into town to find the man we found.
His wife served us rice and beans and beer.
We got just what we wanted,
headed down to the ocean's mouth to make our peace again.
How far we go along the road to find ourselves.
How far we go along the road to find ourselves.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk
• world
• music
• rock
• indie
• miadoitodd
• tristanbayer
• earthnative
• musicvideo
• ski
• jacksonhole
• wearethemasses

[earthnativefilms]

@noncognitive I completely agree with your criticism. This was just a little side trip that Mia liked and wanted to post. She especially asked for the kitchen shot to be included. Less of a music video and more of a moment captured with a tiny still camera in video mode. Mia's music surely is larger than life. This was just a little something we liked and made in a day. Next time: Epicness!.

[elysianintricacy]

please please can you or someone post the lyrics, thank you :) X

[earthnativefilms]

4. SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

David, is it true that fear is lavender?

How do you walk the waves so free?

Fear is an ocean of unknown proportion.

It strikes me down some sleepless nights.

Some sleepless nights, some sleepless nights,

some sleepless nights.

[noncognitive]

@earthnativefilms - In honest criticism here (not negative), the documentary idea is great but not like this.

The song can speak to people with serious strife -- people struggling with profound illness, famine, war, abuse, and so on -- and that's what elevates it to true greatness.

Even if Mia has a profound fear of mountains, a road trip to a ski resort doesn't represent the kind of struggle the lyrics share. Kitchens, lifts, movies -- no. Try recovering from addiction, war, stroke, etc.

[spangleJ]

longing for an acoustic or acapella Mia albumn

[lzlsanatomy]

I like your music. It reminds me Joni Mitchell.

[HastaFatum]

Just heard this last night when Mia opened for Jose Gonzalez. Awesome.

[boundroundsound]

...out on the patio

i told you how long ago i

had abandoned my will

under the circumstance

I really had no chance to loss

?????

how far we go along the road

away from ourselves

how far we go along the road

away from ourselves

[cocodrilo76]

gorgeous green

[BOOYAHKAHSHAH]

You guys rock