When You Sleep

When I look at you\nOh, I don\'t know what\'s real\n\n\\she has been around, or that she is just playing a character that he doesn\'t know how to take, but she\'s intriguing to him.\n\\he doesn\'t believe she would be around him for love\n\nOnce in a while\nAnd you make me laugh\n\n\\it\'s surprising that she can make him laugh\n\\maybe since he lived a life thinking that he couldn\'t get someone, like her, or maybe he\'s just in disbelief that things can go right, despite all the bad things happening to him and the circumstances of them having met, seems, unreal, like it possibly wasn\'t meant to be\n\nAnd I\'ll see you tomorrow\nAnd it won\'t be long\nOnce in a while\n\n\\flirtatious relationship of girl constantly wanting to be around boy. Courting.\n\nThen you take me down\nThen you walk away\n\n\\girl just doesn\'t make him feel high, just a bit down, as if she was stringing him along, all along, not saying it doesn\'t come without perks though, he just doesn\'t know how to take it, still him questioning, is this how love is? Or is this the way it\'s gonna be, for me?\n\nWhen you say \'I do\'\nOh, I don\'t believe you\nI can\'t forget it\nNo\n\n//again girl stringing him along, telling him what he wants to hear, she knows he loves her, but she is either not reciprocating the feelings or "synching up" during conversations about each other. She likes how things are going, which is why she lies about saying I love you, but in the lyrics it\'s "I do" so he see\'s that she is giving him the sense of marriage, with the "I do" talk, again she enjoys his company, and would consider making it official, but he see\'s her as a liar or at least, a bullshitter, he possibly thinks that she is saying "I do" like a marriage to put him off, but this can be a cruel game of pulling at what he wants, sort of, not what she wants, necessarily. A relationship of convenience, not of love. And the marriage talk could also be about commitment issues, for both him and her.\n\n\nWhen you sleep tomorrow\nAnd it won\'t be long\nOnce in a while\nWhen you make me smile\nWhen you turn your long blond hair\n\n//it wont be long till i see you again. both invested in seeing each other.\n"smile" this time, means comfort or content with how things are going.\n\n//"When you turn your long blond hair" in essence relating to the title "When you sleep" that it is a highlight of the relationship, when although she turns to sleep, she chooses to sleep with him, in a sense, or literally.\n\nWhen I look at you\nOh, I don\'t know what\'s real\nOnce in a while\nAnd you make me laugh\n\n\\then a shift, self doubt from him, bewildered by some kind of pain or just self hurt, unsure again about the relationship. woe. but then also memories telling him a good sign of the relationship, makes him smile and laugh. good signs.\n\nAnd I\'ll sleep tomorrow\nAnd it won\'t be long\nOnce in a while\nThen you take me down\nWhen you walk away\n\n//Him and her seeing each other like usual, not much time spent apart, although this could mean that \'this time, it won\'t be long before we see each other again\' (I had a relationship like this where for months almost years we wouldn\'t talk, then when I reached out and called her again it was like picking up where we left off, without really arguing or anything, just happy to talk to each other again, mutually so we didn\'t want to spoil it by arguing. This turned to moments of nothingness to end of year cycles where we would meet up again and hang out every second day if it wasn\'t every day)\nSo yeah these kind of lyrics make sense to me, and the him and her, I believe, is supposed to be switchable, so example sometimes it means she would laugh, she would smile, he would take her down, she would take him down, when she walk away, when he walk away etc; This kind of dual meaning can represent the reflectiveness of love and reciprocation. taking someone down could mean a crash of reality, bringing them down to earth and giving them a chance to see love and relationship for what it is, for them, and if they are willing or ready.\nTwo things, "And I\'ll sleep tomorrow" possibly her longing for more time with him, such as "And I\'l sleep tomorrow" - when I\'m with him. I do see she has trouble in her home/family life. And being with him is like a break -a break in her own reality...And "When you walk away" like I said interchangable between persons, both him and her have had their share of walking away, and then its up to the listener to decide was it him? - Was it her? (to finally walk away)