The way that I read this song, it's sung by a guy whose girl has either died from a sleeping pill overdose and he dreams about her every night. The dream itself is bittersweet (It's always cold/It's always day) but in it he gets to see her again and she says that she'll be fine as long as she stays awake with him (You always say,"I'll be alright, I'll be okay, if I can keep myself awake."
The rest of the song talks about how much he loves to see her again (But when I'm sleeping I'm so deep in it [love], so much more real to me, closer than reality) but the dream and waking up from it without her there is so painful that he never wants to have it again and instead tries to keep himself awake.
It's probably a bit of a strech, but that's the way I thought about it when I first heard it.
The way that I read this song, it's sung by a guy whose girl has either died from a sleeping pill overdose and he dreams about her every night. The dream itself is bittersweet (It's always cold/It's always day) but in it he gets to see her again and she says that she'll be fine as long as she stays awake with him (You always say,"I'll be alright, I'll be okay, if I can keep myself awake."
The rest of the song talks about how much he loves to see her again (But when I'm sleeping I'm so deep in it [love], so much more real to me, closer than reality) but the dream and waking up from it without her there is so painful that he never wants to have it again and instead tries to keep himself awake.
It's probably a bit of a strech, but that's the way I thought about it when I first heard it.