"Dreaming Wide Awake" is the first single from the album

Twilight Theater ''Twilight Theater'' is the fourth studio album by the Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall. It was released in Finland as well as on iTunes on 17 March 2010

Poets of the Fall Poets of the Fall (POTF) is a Finnish rock band from Helsinki. The group consists of Marko Saaresto (lead vocals), Olli Tukiainen (lead guitar), Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen (keyboards, production), Jani Snellman (bass), Jaska Mäkinen (rhythm gu ...

. The single was released in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

on 3 February 2010 and contains two versions of the title track. It peaked at #18 in the Finnish Top 20 Singles Charts.

Track listing

# Dreaming Wide Awake (radio edit) - 3:46 # Dreaming Wide Awake (album version) - 4:22

Music video

"Dreaming Wide Awake" video was released on 10 February 2010. It was directed by Oskari Sipola. The video premiered online in HD quality on

YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...

. It features actors Kai Bäckström and Jemina Sillanpää, starring as two lovers and shows the consequences of loss, as it is revealed later that the woman died and the man is not able to cope with the loss which makes him lose his grip on reality. The heavy snow environment adds to the feeling of cold and isolation. The video was shot with a Red One camera. Shots of

Marko Saaresto Marko Saaresto (born 5 December 1970) is the founding member, lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the Finnish alternative rock band Poets of the Fall. Saaresto worked as a graphic designer before forming the band in late 2002. Sam Lake, Saa ...

singing were shot on the top of the

Cirrus Cirrus may refer to: Science *Cirrus (biology), any of various thin, thread-like structures on the body of an animal *Cirrus (botany), a tendril *Infrared cirrus, in astronomy, filamentary structures seen in infrared light *Cirrus cloud, a type ...

building in Helsinki, the tallest building in Finland.

References

External links

* 2010 singles 2010 songs Poets of the Fall songs {{2010s-rock-song-stub