Song · P.O.D.
“Sleeping Awake” by P.O.D.
From the album Payable on Death (2003)
“Sleeping Awake” by P.O.D. appears on 13 radio countdowns from 13 stations in 2003. It was first released in 2003 on the album Payable on Death. Its best result is #14 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 50 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #102 alternative song of 2003.
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"Sleeping Awake" was P.O.D.'s contribution to The Matrix Reloaded: The Album, landing as the soundtrack's lead single on May 26, 2003, and later tacked onto the band's own Payable on Death as a bonus track. Noah "Wuv" Bernardo, Traa Daniels and Sonny Sandoval wrote it, Mike Plotnikoff recorded it and Chris Lord-Alge mixed it into a thick slab of alternative metal.
Everything about it is wired to the movie. The video and the words lift straight from the film's world, and the chorus calls out to Zion, the last human city on Earth in the Matrix story, turning a blockbuster tie-in into something closer to a rallying cry.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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