Sleep Awake Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Zhopz 

Cover art for Sleep Awake lyrics by Mother Mother

In my opinion: The song is about a woman who has killed her boyfriend. She disposes of the evidence, and then lays next to his dead body, "protecting him." She has a gun if someone finds her, and a getaway car on the street. Clearly she isn't entirely sane, and there could be many other interpretations (the obvious one being that her boyfriend has killed someone and that she is protecting him) but this one seems to fit the best.

Or her child has killed someone, hence "I sleep with one hand on my 45, the other 'round my baby's waist". She disposes of the body and is protecting her child. We all know mothers call the children baby's at any age.