Sleep Away Your Troubles is about an unrequited love and the stalemate that distance can cause. It is unclear to us whether the singer is close to the subject of the song, though one can assume that they are in each other’s lives as per the line “I hope you never leave me’.
Much of the song is about how despite bearing the pain of a one-sided love the singer continues to wish well for the subject, almost blessing them in hopes nothing changes for the worse.
An unhappy stalemate is more comfortable than defeat.
Sleep Away Your Troubles is about an unrequited love and the stalemate that distance can cause. It is unclear to us whether the singer is close to the subject of the song, though one can assume that they are in each other’s lives as per the line “I hope you never leave me’.
Much of the song is about how despite bearing the pain of a one-sided love the singer continues to wish well for the subject, almost blessing them in hopes nothing changes for the worse.
An unhappy stalemate is more comfortable than defeat.