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Sabrina Claudio “As Long As You’re Asleep”

“As Long As You’re Asleep” is a sensual R&B ballad that’s almost entirely about insecurity and jealousy. Sabrina Claudio sings from the perspective of a woman who is so hopelessly in love that she feels removed from time and space, just moving through life in a daze any time she’s not hooking up with this magic lover. She sounds woozy but dazzled, and right on the edge of acknowledging that she feels awful. The chorus is what really stings, where she’s imagining them in bed with someone else and just hoping they’re asleep rather than having sex. You know a situation is sad when the best case scenario for the paranoid fantasy in the song is that she’s the other woman for a married or coupled person, and not just another girl on the side. But you know, if they’re asleep they’re not doing anything or thinking of someone else. What a depressing thing to cling to, but I totally get this feeling she’s putting out there.

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