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Canadian singer The Weeknd references this prayer in his song "Big Sleep" from his 2025 album Hurry Up Tomorrow, where featured artist Giorgio Moroder recites the lines *"Now I lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my soul to keep, angels watch me through the night, wake me up with light"* in the second verse. [12] Film and television
The song features an acoustic and orchestral instrumental, while X sings about his hope for repentance, and that he hopes it is not too late for his redemption. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The chorus repeats, "Before I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, I hope it's not too late for me".
Heard by reversing the song starting at the 94-second mark. The message is composed of rearranged verses from earlier in the song. The B-52s "Detour Thru Your Mind" "I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh no, you're playing the record backward. Watch out, you might ruin your needle." [4]
"Moonlight Serenade" is an American swing ballad composed by Glenn Miller with subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was an immediate phenomenon when released in May 1939 as an instrumental arrangement, though it had been adopted and performed as Miller's signature tune as early as 1938, even before it had been given the name "Moonlight Serenade".
According to him, the song's breakdown "brilliantly utilizes that 'Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep' bedtime prayer in such a way as to add to the scary movie aspect of the song". [13] Steve Huey, in AllMusic's review of Metallica , described it as one of the album's best songs, with "crushing, stripped-down grooves". [ 29 ]
The song also was played in Season 2/Episode 18 of Cold Case. Hawkins also performed the songs "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" and "As I Lay Me Down" in the season 4 episode 8 "Herstory of Dance" of the television show Community. In the episode, Britta organizes a "Sophie B. Hawkins" dance in protest to Greendale's "Sadie Hawkins" dance.
Kirkpatrick, William J. Joy and praise: a Sunday-school song book Cincinnati, Ohio: Fillmore Music House, 1908, 266 pp. Wesleyan Methodist Church The Methodist Sunday-school hymn-book , compiled by direction of the Wesleyan-methodist conference London: Wesleyan-Methodist Sunday-School Union, 1879, 488 pp.
"Now I Lay Me" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, the title is taken from the prayer above. [1] It is one of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories and part of Hemingway's collection of short stories titled Men Without Women , which was published in 1927.