On the version of this song on the live & acoustic 2001 album, Jason Mraz revealed that this song is about his cat. The two parts of the song represent, respectively, the feline’s mindset and its journey into the dream world as it drifts off into a cat nap.
You close your eyes
You say goodnight in your own special way
You rest your head and you rest your mind
And there you go
There you go so fast, so fast asleep
There you are without a care when or where
But there you are I swear without a care where it is you lay
Spiraling spaces tangled up in moments of touching time
Trying to find some somewhere sleeping sideways
Pockets full of nothing, head exploding from the mind
Too much time for dancing in our hair
Sister don't be shy between little you and I
Mouths in line, tears beside
And we're gonna weep in between the sleep
Until we float away into broken promises
Too much too hard to keep
And we would sell our souls to the devil if he promised us hell
It's something we already know so well
And it's right on, right on the tip of our tongue
Something big that has already begun
(something dead but not quite numb)
And I'm singing it
Mouths in line, tears beside
And we're gonna weep in between the sleep
Until we float away into broken promises
Too much too hard to keep