What does Asleep mean?

Emily Browning: Asleep Meaning

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Asleep Lyrics

Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I'm tired and I
I want to go to bed

Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
And then leave me alone
Don't try to wake me in the morning
Cause I will be gone

Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep...

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    anonymous
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     Aug 6th 2011 !⃝

    Yes, I understand what the rest of you are talking about and all. But this is my opinion of the song (I have seen the movie, though)

    The song has a hidden element: Death.
    In the beginning, it as though she were singing about going to her death bed and dying. Being put to sleep has the hidden meaning of death (Rest in Peace, or, Sleeping peacefully). When she sings 'And then leave me alone', she wants to die peacefully.
    Its as though she knows she is going to die the next day from a fatal injury, or she knows that she is going to die soon.

    "Don't feel bad for me." What she means is don't feel upset that i'm going to go (heaven, afterlife, etc..) because I'll be much more happier over there rather than being alive.

    "I don't want to wake up on my own anymore." She must have had such a hard life that she had to live on her own with no help or guidance, or feels as though there was no one in the world that'll help her, so death is the option of freedom from pain.

    "Deep in the Cell of my heart." Even though she doesn't want to die as there is more in her life, deep down, she really wants to die rather than live because she mainly feels as though, or is in a situation where she has nothing left to live for.

    Yes, this is a dark interpretation for all of you, but, I think this is a new twist on what we all think.

  2. anonymous
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     Sep 27th 2012 !⃝

    I never saw the movie, but I love the song.

    Honestly, if I heard any of my loved ones singing this, I'd be thinking they're about to commit suicide.

  3. anonymous
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     Jan 15th 2012 !⃝

    So I honestly adore the movie, as if it could be adored. It has a vile and crude message, but a vivid one and perfect soundtrack. I feel like this song is a calm-down from Where Is My Mind? and Sweet Dreams, even though it doesn't go quite in that order. BabyDoll just wants to be able to let go, seeing that Sweet Pea is stronger than any of them, and realizing that "the mystery of whose story it will be" is a mystery no more. The strongest die hard, or escape within an inch of death. Sweet Pea had to deliver Rocket's message to her parents, and she really had no psychosis; unlike what Baby Doll was wrongly accused of having.

  4. Undercurrents
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     Jun 21st 2011 !⃝

    I didn't see the movie so my interpretation is a little different.

    The song is about a woman who is lonely.( I dont want to wake up on my own anymore) She is with a lover who makes her feel loved and beautiful, but only when he's with her. He's not committed and doesn't plan to stay with her.

    Her enjoyment of her lover is accompanied by her knowledge that it is only for the night,and not the real thing. As she lies there, she tells her lover to "sing me to sleep" or to keep telling her pretty words and making her feel good. Its as if she is letting herself feel the temporary joy but for the last time. (sing to me and then leave me alone) Before she leaves, she has to let herself feel it one last time.

    He understands that she feels more deeply for him than he does for her, that its hurting her. But she wants him not to feel bad for her,because although it hurts, leaving will be good for her and help her heal, which she wouldn't be able to do if she stayed with him. (dont feel bad for me, i want you to know. Deep in the cell of my heart, i want to go)

    She keeps telling herself there is another world, a better world, person, or life for herself in which she doesn't have to hurt like she's hurting now.

  5. anonymous
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     May 11th 2011 !⃝

    I think that she is willing to sacrafice herself not only to give sweet pea a chance to escape but also because she wants to escape to another and better world! That is in essence what the movie is about!! Escaping but not running away from reality but rather finding away out and seeing the bright side of the situation you are faced with. She suffers from guild becauce she killed her sister and her way to ecape is through a lobotamy!!

  6. anonymous
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     Mar 30th 2011 !⃝

    In the movie baby doll (Emily Browning) sacrifices herself in order to let another girl escape. Sacrificing herself included her being forced to have a lobotomy. Therefore she was "going to another world". The song is about her going to sleep and never waking up again and for you not to feel sorry for her because she wants to go there.


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