I'm Not Sleeping

elizabeth is a real person, your'e thinking of MARIA i think. because adam says he alone in this song, it seems more like this girl that comes to him at night is all in his head. he imagines her coming to sit next to him and all that... and it just makes him feel more alone

it's probably wrong, but i've always thought this song is about him going through a nervous breakdown, i think the girl is maybe someone who he dated who was a tv star (maybe monica or rachel from freinds), but it's not really her, it's him dreaming, when he's lying in bed, it's so quiet and he gets all this time to think and so he imagines her with all his emotions she is telling him that everyone is against him and is laughing at him, making him paranoid, making him angry and possibly even suicidal. it all adds to the crap floating through his mind in life, how sad he is, how angry he is and how scared and mixed up he is, and the girl is adding to it, thats why he says he's not sleeping anymore, because he's overcome the worst of his breakdown and he's now on the mend, so because he's not sleeping, she can't hurt him, he also says about following her down through a valley, and he'll follow her down but won't come up again, basically meaning that following her down will bring him further and further into depression and self pity that he'll get beyond help, but he opts against that and this song is about coming out the other end. Does anyone agree with this? or am i speaking crap?

This song is probably my favorite CC song, although I love them all. I've never seen anything on sites like www.annabegins.com but I'll tell you what I think it means. This song is one of the most in depth crows songs ever. It is about an amazing girl who the guy in the song screwed up with. In the verse he describes the qualities about her that make her a great girl. "She comes to me at night when I'm alone/ She comes to me she holds my head...when I'm crying." Then in the chorus he describes how he screwed up. "But I'm not sleeping anymore." After the second chorus and the third are my favorite parts where the guy in the song just breaks apart and loses it. It's so artistic because the instrumentals become as hysterical as the singer and it just flows (or doesn't flow) so perfectly. In the end the guy kinda says that he'll make it, though. Learn from his mistakes and move on "I'm goin; out that door." If anyone has any info I'd like to hear whether or not this song is another about Elizabeth. The "I'm not sleeping part." reminds me of the song "I wish I was girl" which is about Elizabeth.

By the way, the lyrics at the end read:

Rain, rain, go away Come again some other day Cuz I've got all this shit to say But I'm going back to find my way My sister's mother's favorite son Lost among the chosen ones But I've got news for everyone Cuz I'm going out that door

elizabeth isn't an actual person. she's Adam as a girl.

maybe its just me but this song may be about monica potter again, just like mrs potter's lullaby. "i see her on tv, i see her in the movies" i dont know

this is probaly wrong.., but this song makes me think the girl is his conscience..or someone he dreams of or that he wants people to be. pppl who dont hide anything and dont have any part of them covered up. someone who has everything out there (she lays beside me naked). And he only dreams about her when he sleeps, but when he wakes up, he realizes that people arent like that (im not sleeping anymore) and it gets him all sad and whatnot. but yep thats just my opinion.

Wow, I see this song very differently. I think that the girl is someone he thought loved him, but she was actually cruel and devious. The song is about finally realizing what she is. It starts out "she comes to me at night, when I'm sleeping..." Then he goes on to describe the ways she comforts him, seduces him.... and tells him that his friends aren't really. ("she tells me when you look at me, she tells me when you're lying", etc.) In the end, he "wakes up", and decides he doesn't want to go back to that, that he's alone and it sucks. But he's been through it before, and even if he misses the way it was when he was naive, he isn't going back to that.

ok, i'm confusing myself trying to interpret this all so i'm just going to say i think the 'you' is the girl he's currently with and 'she' is someone who's already in love with him and believes he would be better off with her so she's like poisoning him against his girl. he cheats with this girl and ends up losing them both and that's when he wakes up and realises what an arse he's been (i'm not sleeping anymore, i ain't all that innocent anymore) i think when he says "i see her on the t.v, movies, in my head" it means he can't forget what he's done to these girls and how he behaved. i just love how you can interpret songs just about any way you want.

i always thought the "she" referred to either depression or drug use, like heroin...