Editing Lullabies to Paralyze (section)

==Background==
The album title ''Lullabies to Paralyze'' was intended to bridge ''Lullabies'' with its predecessor ''[[Songs for the Deaf]]'' by naming it after a line in "Mosquito Song", the final track on ''Songs for the Deaf''.<ref name="Vertigo">{{cite web
| url=http://www.vertigo.fm/main.php?site=artist_texte&artist_id=1639
| publisher=Vertigo
| title=Queens Of The Stone Age Interview
| access-date=2005-05-18
| quote =I also like that the title bridges this record and the last record in that it’s a lyric from “Mosquito Song”. (Homme)}}</ref> The "deluxe limited edition" of the album includes a bonus track and a bonus [[DVD]] containing "a look behind the scenes and special bonus footage". Videos were produced for singles "[[Little Sister (Queens of the Stone Age song)|Little Sister]]", "[[In My Head (Queens of the Stone Age song)|In My Head]]" and "[[Burn the Witch (Queens of the Stone Age song)|Burn the Witch]]", and the song "Someone's in the Wolf".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://music.yahoo.com/ar-288023-videos--Queens-Of-The-Stone-Age|title=QOTSA Yahoo videos|access-date=December 3, 2019}}</ref> The video for "Someone's in the Wolf" was featured on the bonus DVD of ''Lullabies to Paralyze''.

The album was delayed during 2004 because of some changes to the line-up: bassist, vocalist, and co-songwriter [[Nick Oliveri]] was fired and on-off vocalist [[Mark Lanegan]] went on tour with his own band.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1484974/20040211/queens_stone_age.jhtml 
 |title=Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanegan Leave Queens Of The Stone Age 
 |publisher=VH1 
 |date=2004-02-12 
 |access-date=2007-06-18 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001045426/http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1484974/20040211/queens_stone_age.jhtml 
 |archive-date=2007-10-01 
}}</ref>
Lanegan can still be heard singing on several songs of the album; he also contributed lyrics. Because of this turmoil, there had been rumours that Lanegan had left the band, which [[Josh Homme]] eventually clarified in several interviews was never the case.{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}} Nevertheless, he encouraged these rumours to draw the attention off the band by giving the press "something to focus on while I was just making the record".{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}}

{{cquote|And at the time, I was like, "Fuck, no one's even listening to this. It's too much about other stuff." And it would have been easy to make ''Songs for the Deaf 2'', which is basically all I heard in my own head. But I can't do that. You've got to shake all that shit away.<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42335-qotsas-homme-talks-new-lp-motivations-pirates |title=QOTSA's Homme Talks New LP, Motivations, Pirates: interview with Joshua Homme, April 13, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416045625/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42335-qotsas-homme-talks-new-lp-motivations-pirates |archive-date=April 16, 2007 }}</ref>|20px|20px|Josh Homme, Pitchfork interview, April 13, 2007}}

===LP versions===
The album has three LP pressing runs. The first pressing was released by AntAcidAudio and contains a different cover to the CD version. The sides are named ''Once'', ''You'', ''Were'' & ''Lost'', after a line from "Someone's in the Wolf", with each containing a mixture of the CD's album and bonus tracks (with the exception of ''Once'', only the standard tracks are present).

The second pressing is a reissue by Dutch record label Music On Vinyl, released on September 22, 2011. The reissue is different from the first pressing in that it does not have its sides named after the line from "Someone's in the Wolf," and it uses the cover art from the CD release. The reissue omitted bonus tracks "Infinity" and "Precious and Grace" from the track listing, and listed "Like a Drug" as the last track. Side four contains an etching of one of the album's artwork.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog.php/queens-of-the-stone-age/lullabies-to-paralyze|title=Music On Vinyl|first=Music On|last=Vinyl|website=www.musiconvinyl.com|access-date=December 3, 2019}}</ref>

The third pressing was released in November 2019 and features the tracklist from the original 2005 LP release and the cover art from the original CD release.