To me this song isn't about a girl. I think of it more as a song to all the people who sleep walk their way through life
("As I watch you doze away. You slept through minutes and hours and days", and "Here's my lullaby, designed to wake you up. Don't you close your eyes. The world has sealed them shut again. So you wanna be sung sleep?I prefer to slaughter the sheep you count each night it seems and waste a thousand dreams"), a call for them to open their eyes because it's over too soon (The night is young and the sky overhead . Will burn but not for long).
To me this song isn't about a girl. I think of it more as a song to all the people who sleep walk their way through life ("As I watch you doze away. You slept through minutes and hours and days", and "Here's my lullaby, designed to wake you up. Don't you close your eyes. The world has sealed them shut again. So you wanna be sung sleep?I prefer to slaughter the sheep you count each night it seems and waste a thousand dreams"), a call for them to open their eyes because it's over too soon (The night is young and the sky overhead . Will burn but not for long).