"Sleep Well" is a song created by CG5 for Chapter 3 of Poppy Playtime. The song was previously teased in the game as a short easter egg snippet. The full version and a live version is exclusively found on Mob Entertainment and CG5's YouTube channels.
In collaboration with CG5, Mob Entertainment produced a music video in honor of the release of Chapter 3: "Deep Sleep". It would also be teased on Twitter until it was finally released on February 16, 2024.
The music video centers around the toys' desire for freedom outside the Playtime Co. factory. Eventually, when this isn't received, they all gather together in an attempt to make their wishes a reality. After their wishes have been fulfilled, they find themselves in a nightmare of betrayal. This message is heavily told through the lens of "Sleeping", which can be inferred from the constant imagery of CatNap.
Analysis[]
Mob Entertainment Music Video[]
The music video starts with Kissy Missy in Playcare gazing up at the artificial sky. The scene transitions to Mommy Long Legs on the Scientist Catwalks, watching the Game Station with Bunzo Bunny on her back. Huggy Wuggy is then shown in the Main Lobby, followed by CatNap wandering through Home Sweet Home. In a subsequent scene, CatNap encounters a sentient Hoppy Hopscotch experiment, and they reach out to each other tentatively.
The music video shifts to the bedroom in Home Sweet Home where CatNap is sitting on the wooden floor. As time passes, CatNap is joined by a variety of other miniature toys, including Boxy Boo, Huggy Wuggy, Kissy Missy, and others, all coming together seemingly longing for freedom. The video then shows Huggy Wuggy and Kissy Missy in Playcare before transitioning to the Poppy Room, where Poppy is depicted turning from her cage with curiosity with the shadow of the Prototype’s claw looming over her.
As the video repeatedly chants "The Hour of Joy," multiple toys are shown charging towards the screen, symbolizing CatNap's efforts to kickstart The Hour of Joy, which proves successful. CatNap lunges towards the camera, Huggy roars into the abyss, Mommy reaches out towards the audience, and Poppy is seen running in distress.
The scene shifts to CatNap spreading The Red Smoke throughout Home Sweet Home, meticulously ensuring every corner is covered. Miss Delight makes a cameo appearance, sitting alone in an empty School. Poppy is depicted breathing heavily, with a heavy amount of blood on the walls behind her, fully aware of the havoc caused by the toys. Meanwhile, a horde of Mini Huggies, Mini Critters, a Bunzo Bunny toy, along with multiple other toys begin marching in the Playhouse, demanding for freedom. The scene transitions to Huggy and Kissy laying on artificial grass in Playcare, gazing at the artificial sunset, further emphasizing the toys desire for freedom.
The video transitions to an unknown figure wandering around Home Sweet Home, causing the Mini Critters and the Mini Huggies to hide in fear. The perspective shifts to this mysterious figure as they approach CatNap, who is seated in a wooden room, scratching out a drawing of Theodore Grambell. It is revealed that the unknown figure is the Prototype, reaching out to CatNap for support. The scene then shifts to an empty Poppy cage, the color desaturated from the video as Mini Critters and Mini Huggies salute the presence of another unknown figure, likely The Player. The video replays previous scenes until a final moment where Huggy is shown locked inside the Playtime Co. factory after The Hour of Joy, symbolizing the toys' continued entrapment despite their efforts and actions.
CG5 Music Video[]
CG5's music video presents a different series of scenes. The music video starts with CatNap wandering the halls of Home Sweet Home, which is shrouded in The Red Smoke. The scene transitions to another corridor in Home Sweet Home, at night, with Kissy Missy wandering past. In the next scene, Kissy is shown sitting on a bed in a bedroom, looking at a framed photograph.
The music video shifts to an ashy location with CatNap crouched down in contemplation, with a Gas Mask in his paw. After a moment, his eyes open, and the scene transitions to the Ruined Critters, who join hands and dance in a circle as the video chants "in The Hour of Joy". The scene whirlpool transitions back to CatNap wandering the halls of Playcare, where he finds a lone Huggy Wuggy doll on the ground. He picks it up and examines it. The music video then flashes to CatNap standing in front of his shrine to the Prototype. He stands up and extends his arms in worship. The video shifts to a ruined CatNap plush exhaling red smoke as the bigger CatNap appears behind it. It then fades to DogDay hanging in his cell.
As the children say "Can you see us? Can you hear us?" the video shows Huggy Wuggy in the Main Lobby, his mouth open, with a spotlight shone on him. The video then flicks to VHS footage of Boxy Boo lunging at an employee, before cutting to Mommy Long Legs as she carries another employee, then to Huggy Wuggy attacking employees in the Main Lobby, and finally to CatNap as he stares at the body of another employee.
As the children chant "We want freedom", the music video flashes to Miss Delight stalking the halls of the School, before she breaks into a dash, before cutting to a shot of her crushed beneath the door, her eyelid twitching as she lay dying. The music video then fades to a possessed DogDay stalking through the Playhouse, before he stops, clutching a block and looking towards the camera.
The video then fades to the moment following the player burning CatNap, with the Prototype's hand descending from the ceiling. CatNap gets onto his knees, only for the Prototype to stab him through the mouth with his fingers and lift his body up into the vent. Behind where CatNap had been is a television screen, which shows the opening to the Smiling Critters Cartoon. It briefly cuts to black, before an image of CatNap appears on the screen, his eyes blacked out. After the camera zooms in on CatNap's face, his eyes light up in the same manner as the bigger CatNap.
Lyrics[]
Throughout the history of Poppy Playtime, we are taken through the perspective of the employees at Playtime Co. as they make attempts at refining and replicating Elliot Ludwig's recipe for post-death mortality. Up until the release of Chapter 3: "Deep Sleep", we had not been provided the perspective of the toys until the introduction of The Hour of Joy, which was teased in RESTRICTED_relocation.
Through the lyrics, the experiments situation (which relates to them being trapped in the Playtime Co. Factory) is represented by sleeping, and they desire to wake up from their nightmare, referring to ultimate freedom like their previous lives. After being offered with freedom via the Prototype and CatNap, the toys group together in The Hour of Joy in an act of revenge to the employees for making them suffer in a never-ending nightmare, however in the end, the toys still find themselves trapped in their nightmare, now included with betrayal.
Transcript[]
(Verse 1- CG5)
Come along, down with me
You're not alone, you will see
The children, they have each other
And each other is all they need
In the hour of joy in this Paradise
I thought about all that could have been
If we had never done the things we did
If we had realized all our sins
(Chorus- Chi-Chi, Kathy-Chan, Cami-Cat)
Come along, down with me (come along, come-a come along)
You're not alone, you will see (come along, come-a come along)
We children, we have each other
And each other is all we need
(Chorus- Chi-Chi, Kathy-Chan, Cami-Cat)
In the hour of joy, in the hour of joy
In the hour of joy, in the hour of joy
In the hour of joy, in the hour of joy
In the hour of joy, in the hour of joy
In the hour of joy, in the hour of joy
(Chorus- CG5)
Artificial facade from a fraud of a God
All due to the path that we trod
We just wanted to heal, but now our nightmares are real
And now we'll never wake up, for we've torn apart
(Chorus- Chi-Chi, Kathy-Chan, Cami-Cat)
We want freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom, freedom (we all fall down)
(Chorus- CG5)
We'll sleep well now
Dream, dreams knocked out
New blooms when playtime sprouts
(Verse 2- CG5)
Come along, go to sleep (come along, come-a come along)
And leave here without a trace (come along, come-a come along)
Though life in the shadows isn't much
It's better than living in a cage
(Verse 2- Chi-Chi, Kathy-Chan, Cami-Cat)
Can you see us?
Can you hear us?
(Chorus- CG5)
Artificial facade from a fraud of a God
All due to the path that we trod
We just wanted to heal, but now our nightmares are real
And now we'll never wake up, for we've torn apart
(Chorus- Chi-Chi, Kathy-Chan, Cami-Cat)
We want freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom, freedom (we all fall down)
(Chorus- CG5)
We'll sleep well now
Dream, dreams knocked out
New blooms when playtime sprouts
(Chorus- CG5)
Artificial facade from a fraud of a God (la-la-la-la, la-la)
All due to the path that we trod
(Chorus- CG5, Chi-Chi, Kathy-Chan, Cami-Cat)
We just wanted to heal,
But now our nightmares are real (la-la-la-la, la-la)
And now we'll never wake up, we've torn apart
Artificial facade
(Ending- Chi-Chi, Kathy-Chan, Cami-Cat)
(la-la-la-la, la-la)
(La-la-la-la, la-la)
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Trivia[]
- Throughout the video, the models for Huggy Wuggy and Mommy Long Legs shift between their Poppy Playtime models and their Project: Playtime models.
- In the Mob Games version, it revealed the Prototype comforting CatNap in Home Sweet Home, we can tell the Prototype's height being most likely smaller than CatNap but bigger than us as the Prototype reaches down to CatNap while he is crouching.
- The melody is the same as the "It's Playtime" track from the Chapter 1 soundtrack.
- The music video clarifies that the Mini toys were formerly children aside from specific examples like Experiment 1199.
- In both versions, DogDay is present in both, chained and roaming.
- The music videos hint that CatNap never wanted to be evil as shown when looking at an old carving of himself as a kid on a bed, same drawing shown in-game.
- "Sleep Well" shares a similar storyline to "This Comes From Inside" by The Living Tombstone.
- This is the third mascot-horror game to have a fan song in-game as an Easter egg. The first two are Bendy and the Ink Machine (all the radios play a fan song) and Garten of Banban (in the visions, the car radio plays "Rivals").
- Coincidentally, all the fan songs are heard on radios.