Sleeper recorded three studio albums: Smart, The It Girl and Pleased to Meet You. Their breakthrough song, "Inbetweener", featured a memorable video with Dale Winton, who was a popular icon among students at the time. The group is closely associated with Britpop; Wener was arguably, along with Elastica's Justine Frischmann, the movement's biggest female star. She was even something of a sex symbol. By the time Pleased to Meet You was released in 1997, Britpop was fading, as was the band's audience.
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Sleeper

You closed your eyes and left me here
And now Im jealous of your sleep
I made some noise to wake you up
It seems youve drifted out of reach
Im not sure if you meant what you said
But thats o k
cos it still sounded good
When you said it anyway
Im not sure where you are
When I turn and stroke your face
You dont move anymore
So it must be getting late
Im not tired even now
I think Im glad to be awake
Ive met these fractured thoughts before
They grin and wander round this place
Ill get up all I find
Is a paper that I hate
Real life disappears
And gets shrink wrapped in its place
I get up watch tv
Helps me feed my vicious streak
Real life disappears
Then we watch the spooks on the news
Playing chess with the cynics
Hope you die in the arms of your shrinks in your clinics
Now its gone 5 a m
We smile and plan our revenge
By the end the night has found its true friends
Up all hours sketching a thousand great schemes
Hope Im not too tired to colour them in
I get what I want then Im not sure I want it anymore