Go to Sleep


"Go to Sleep" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released as the second single from their sixth studio album Hail to the Thief on 18 August 2003. It reached number two on the Canadian Singles Chart, number nine on the Italian Singles Chart, and number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.

Composition

"Go to Sleep" is composed in alternating bars of 4/4 and 6/4. It features a processed "stuttering" guitar sound created by guitarist Jonny Greenwood.

Music video

Directed by Alex Rutterford, the song's low-polygon CGI-animated music video shows a full-blossom red rose swaying in the wind, and proceeds to show Yorke sitting on a park bench singing the song while around him men and women in business suits walk by rapidly. In the middle of the video, the buildings, in classical architecture style, spontaneously crumble into pieces and moments later reassemble themselves, only to have become modern in style. The shot returns to the rose shown in the beginning, which is now closed in a bud.

Track listings

UK versions

CD 1 CDR6613
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "I Am Citizen Insane"
  3. "Fog "
CD 2 CDRS6613
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "Gagging Order"
  3. "I Am a Wicked Child"
12" 12R6613
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "I Am Citizen Insane"
  3. "I Am a Wicked Child"

    US version

CD 52953 released 3 September 2003 by Capitol Records
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "Gagging Order"
  3. "I Am a Wicked Child"
7" R-19218
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "I Am Citizen Insane"

    Canada version

CD
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "I Am Citizen Insane"
  3. "Fog "

    Personnel