Story Behind The Song
This is about me. I'm a big joker, keeping everyone else happy, the peacemaker. But I feel misunderstood and not taken care of.
Song Description
The singer is describing herself in 3rd person, how lonely she is, and how she keeps up a front and thinks noone can tell how she really feels. she is afraid to show her feelings because she thinks people won't like the "real" her.
| Song Length |
4:13 |
Genre |
Pop - Easy Listening, Folk - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Floating |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Passive, Poignant |
Subject |
Sadness, Loneliness |
| Similar Artists |
Jewel, Sarah Mclachlan |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Just Before She Falls asleep
And right before she wakes
there?s an innocent expression
a younger face would make
She jokes about her struggles
She pretends she has no pain
Knowing people will believe her
When she says that she?s OK
She thinks that it?s for their sake
But it?s really for own
She claims to be content and says
She prefers to be alone
Just Before She Falls asleep
And right before she wakes
There?s a quiet gentle sadness
present on her face
In her deepest hearts of hearts
She actually believes
If anybody really knew her
surely they would leave
and every day?s a little tougher
keeping up the act
getting harder to distinguish
the fiction from the fact
Just Before She Falls asleep
And right before she wakes
A single tear of longing
Trickles down her face
And in her dreams she is a child
Free to laugh OK to cry
And she?s honest when she smiles
And if she stumbles it?s ok
Because for once she?s not afraid
Until the breaking of the day
But Just Before She Falls asleep
And right before she wakes
there?s an innocent expression
a younger face would make