While You Were Sleeping

Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1965 in Denver, Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of such 1970s American songwriters as Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, Loudon Wainwright III, Harry Chapin, and Randy Newman. Autobiographical elements, including Sobule's Jewish heritage and her adolescent battles with anorexia and depression, frequently occur in Sobule's writing. An appreciable percentage of her work is also dedicated to detailed accounts of both her own fictional female creations and such troubled but celebrated wo… more »

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While you were sleeping
Everything changed
Like a prisoner on his first day out
Everything changed
Fashion's all strange
And the sunlight is blinding
While you were hiding
Everything changed
 
While you were sleeping
I got along
As much as I missed you
I got along
Now that you're gone
Feel I've grown two inches
While you were sleeping
Everything changed
 
Don't you know that you are losing me
Wish that you could just wake up and see
You are losing me
 
Fashion's all strange
And the sunlight is blinding
While you were hiding
Everything changed

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Written by: Bill Demain, Jill Sobule

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