I Can Sleep When I'm Dead

Infobox single
Name = I Can Sleep When I'm Dead
Artist = Jason Michael Carroll
from Album = Waitin' in the Country
Released = Start date|2008|02|04
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 3:23
Label = Arista Nashville
Writer = Jim Collins
Rivers Rutherford
Jason Michael Carroll
Producer = Don Gehman
Last single = "Livin' Our Love Song"
(2007)
This single = "I Can Sleep When I'm Dead"
(2008)
Next single = TBD"I Can Sleep When I'm Dead" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Jason Michael Carroll. The third chart single of his career, it is also the third single from his 2007 album "Waitin' in the Country". It peaked at #21 on the "Billboard" country charts.

Content

The song is an up-tempo accompanied largely by electric guitar, in which the central character is kept awake due to a lifestyle of constant nighttime partying. As a result, he does not have any time set aside for sleeping, thus claiming that he can "sleep when [he's] dead".cite journal |date=2008-06-30 |title=Dead Ringer |journal=Country Weekly |volume=15 |issue=13 |pages=15 |issn=1074-3235 |accessdate=2008-06-19] The song's title was inspired by a comment which Carroll made to a friend, describing his own attempts to maintain his career in country music while raising four children at the same time.

The 9513 reviewer Matt C. gave the song a "thumbs up" rating. He described the song as "a rather surreal experience for me, as I’m used to hearing “I can sleep when I’m dead” from workaholics who are referring to anything but painting up the town" but added, "It’s hard not to smile at the image of Jason Michael Carroll racing his paperboy home and his baritone voice sounds really great on this track. If we must have country rock, this is what is should be: this song’s loud, but in a country kind of way." [cite web |url=http://www.the9513.com/jason-michael-carroll-i-can-sleep-when-im-dead/ |title=Jason Michael Carroll - "I Can Sleep When I'm Dead" |accessdate=2008-09-26 |last=C. |first=Matt |date=2008-01-30 |work=The 9513

A music video was made for the song in June 2008. It was directed by David McClister, who also directed the video for Carroll's 2007 single "Livin' Our Love Song".

Charts

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