Letting the Cables Sleep

"Letting the Cables Sleep"
Single by Bush
from the album The Science of Things
Released11 January 2000 (2000-01-11)
GenreSoft rock
Length
  • 4:36 (album version)
  • 4:33 (single version)
  • 4:30 (edit)
LabelTrauma
SongwriterGavin Rossdale
Producers
Bush singles chronology
"Warm Machine"
(2000)
"Letting the Cables Sleep"
(2000)
"The People That We Love"
(2001)

"Letting the Cables Sleep" is the second single from British rock band Bush's third studio album, The Science of Things. In an interview, Gavin Rossdale revealed that the song was written for a friend who had contracted HIV. The song peaked at number four on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 51 on the UK Singles Chart.