Leave Your Sleep is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant.

"[3] The sleeve notes credit inspiration for the songs of this album as follows: BBC Music gave a review following the album's release:What’s astonishing is how cohesive it all is: from the fire-eyed, Celtic-tinged chamber music of Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience, through to the stark, troubled strings of the closing Indian Names, Leave Your Sleep never feels over-extended.

The sheer ravishing beauty of the arrangements, combined with the tasteful, organic aesthetic (no synths here), prevents things ever jarring, and Merchant’s voice flows constant throughout, supple and hard as silken steel.

Indeed, everything sounds so good from a purely musical perspective that the record perhaps doesn’t showcase its lyricists as well as it could.

But most of these poems simply sink into the verdant whole – 200 years of lyrical and musical history, washing beautifully by.